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Intel’s Never-Ending Spectre Saga Continues To Be A Hot Mess
It’s been nearly a month since The Register first revealed that every single major processor in devices today is subject to a series of harrowing security vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown. Today, in light of news that Intel informed foreign interests of the vulnerabilities before the US government, and that Microsoft is pulling its…
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Intel Claims 90 Per Cent Of Affected CPUs Have Live Patches Just As Rumours Of New Attacks Arrive
This morning in a press release, Intel announced that it has “issued firmware updates for 90 per cent of Intel CPUs introduced in the past five years.” But it’s possible the flurry of patches is just beginning.
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Linus Torvalds Is Not Happy About Intel’s Meltdown And Spectre Mess
Famed Linux developer Linus Torvalds has some pretty harsh words for Intel on the fiasco over Meltdown and Spectre, the massive security flaws in modern processors that predominantly affect Intel products.
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What We Know So Far About Meltdown And Spectre, The Devastating Vulnerabilities In Modern CPUs
This week, news of massive security vulnerabilities afflicting every modern model of Intel processor went public, even as developers for practically every major platform frantically rushed to roll out fixes. Much more information has now become available about Meltdown and Spectre, a group of attack methods malicious parties could use to break into some of…