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The Spectre and Meltdown debacle from earlier this year has forced Intel to make some major changes in its chips to mitigate the critical vulnerabilities that exist at the processor level. Keeping up their promise, Intel has announced that they have “redesigned parts of the processor to introduce new levels of protection through partitioning that will […]
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 […]
When The Register broke the massive side-channel attack flaws pertaining to Intel and other CPUs, it was reported that the users should expect a significant slowdown after installing the patches. Now, Microsoft has performed some benchmarking tests and offered a concrete idea of what you should expect. In a post on Microsoft’s Secure blog, Terry […]