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Academic researchers today disclosed details of the newest class of speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel processors that impacts all modern chips, including the chips used in Apple devices.
After the discovery of Spectre and Mel… Continue reading New Class of CPU Flaws Affect Almost Every Intel Processor Since 2011
Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty for new processor vulnerabilities that are related to Spectre variant one (CVE-2017-5753).
The new Spectre-class variants are tracked as Spectre 1.1 (CVE-2018-3693) and Spectre 1.2, of which Spectre 1.1 describ… Continue reading Two New Spectre-Class CPU Flaws Discovered—Intel Pays $100K Bounty
Security-oriented BSD operating system OpenBSD has decided to disable support for Intel’s hyper-threading performance-boosting feature, citing security concerns over Spectre-style timing attacks.
Introduced in 2002, Hyper-threading is Intel’s implemen… Continue reading OpenBSD Disables Intel Hyper-Threading to Prevent Spectre-Class Attacks
Security researchers from Microsoft and Google have discovered a fourth variant of the data-leaking Meltdown-Spectre security flaws impacting modern CPUs in millions of computers, including those marketed by Apple.
Variant 4 comes weeks after German c… Continue reading New Spectre (Variant 4) CPU Flaw Discovered—Intel, ARM, AMD Affected
A team of security researchers has reportedly discovered a total of eight new “Spectre-class” vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs, which also affect at least a small number of ARM processors and may impact AMD processor architecture as well.
Dubbed Spectre-… Continue reading 8 New Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities (Spectre-NG) Found in Intel CPUs
Meltdown CPU vulnerability was bad, and Microsoft somehow made the flaw even worse on its Windows 7, allowing any unprivileged, user-level application to read content from and even write data to the operating system’s kernel memory.
For those unaware,… Continue reading Microsoft’s Meltdown Patch Made Windows 7 PCs More Insecure
After leaving million of devices at risk of hacking and then rolling out broken patches, Intel has now released a new batch of security patches only for its Skylake processors to address one of the Spectre vulnerabilities (Variant 2).
For those unawar… Continue reading Intel Releases New Spectre Patch Update for Skylake Processors
It has been few weeks since the details of the Spectre, and Meltdown processor vulnerabilities came out in public and researchers have discovered more than 130 malware samples trying to exploit these chip flaws.
Spectre and Meltdown are security vulne… Continue reading Meltdown/Specter-based Malware Coming Soon to Devices Near You, Are You Ready?
Don’t install Intel’s patches for Spectre and Meltdown chip vulnerabilities.
Intel on Monday warned that you should stop deploying its current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches, which Linux creator Linus Torvalds calls ‘complete and utter garbage.’… Continue reading Intel Warns Users Not to Install Its ‘Faulty’ Meltdown and Spectre Patches
Recently uncovered two huge processor vulnerabilities called Meltdown and Spectre have taken the whole world by storm, while vendors are rushing out to patch the vulnerabilities in its products.
The issues apply to all modern processors and affect nea… Continue reading [Guide] How to Protect Your Devices Against Meltdown and Spectre Attacks