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The Retpoline patch for Windows 10 was originally slated to arrive in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update but the fix is now in Windows 10 version 1809, although it must be enabled manually.
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Mitigating Spectre and Meltdown flaws won’t be easy, but experts say exploits targeting Spectre will be hard to patch against. Continue reading Experts Weigh In On Spectre Patch Challenges
Systems engineers at Google have come up with a technique to strengthen applications against a recently revealed attack called Spectre that could abuse a CPU feature to steal passwords, keys and other secrets from a program’s memory. The Spectre … Continue reading Google Develops Application-Level Defense Against Spectre CPU Attack
Following the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in Intel, AMD and ARM CPUs, Google engineers developed a new chip-level patch that specifically addresses one of the three issues, namely the “Branch target injection” that’s also refe… Continue reading Google’s CPU Patch Builds Software ‘Trampolines’ that ‘Negligibly’ Impact Performance