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The Spectre and Meltdown flaws were enough to make people uncomfortable, a report published by the Wall Street Journal sheds more light on the matter. The publication, claiming sources, reported that Intel informed some of their customers about the vulnerabilities before the US government including Microsoft, Amazon, and Chinese companies Alibaba and Lenovo. However, Intel didn’t […]
Microsoft has started pushing a Windows update to disable the microcode patches released earlier for the Spectre variant 2 (CVE-2017-5715) Branch Target Injection vulnerability. The counter patch comes almost a week after Intel asked OEMs and customers to stop deploying the security patches as “they may introduce higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behavior.” Until […]
It would have been strange if Intel’s fourth-quarter had gone without the Chipzilla justifying its stance on the future of Meltdown and Spectre bugs. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich tried to assure investors during the earnings call by saying that his company is working “around the clock” with its partners and there is a lot more to […]
Earlier this month, Intel promised they would fix around 90% of the 5-year-old machines within the coming days. But the patches themselves increased problems for the users by leaving their computer with rebooting issues. Now, the silicon giant has addressed the problem in a new post and advised users not to install security patches currently available […]
On Thursday, AMD unzipped their lips more on the recently disclosed Meltdown and Spectre bugs. While the company has stuck to their claims that their processors are at near-zero risk from Meltdown, the chips are not immune to Spectre bugs. AMD’s stocks fell by around 2% in the after-hours post the announcement. According to a blog […]
The recently known Meltdown and Spectre bugs have affected numerous devices including Linux systems. Companies have started to release software patches to address the bugs, but the outcome is not as intended. What was intended to fix serious vulnerabilities in Intel chips is leaving users with new problems. Some Ubuntu users have reported on Ubuntu […]