Tag: Meltdown
Intel Discloses Yet Another Spectre Vulnerability; Fix May Heavily Affect Performance
Just when we thought that we were past the myriad of Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws, Intel (along with Google and Microsoft) has today...
Chrome OS Updated With Native Video Recording, Password Exports and Instant Tethering
A new version of Chrome OS (version 66) is now rolling out, and it brings a ton of new features and improvements. Chrome OS...
Windows 7 Meltdown Patch Reportedly Creates Major Vulnerability
Microsoft started releasing its Spectre and Meltdown patches at the beginning of 2018 and the company was considerate enough to release patches for Windows...
8th-Gen Intel Xeon and Core Processors Redesigned to Fix Meltdown, Spectre Flaws
In response to the discovery of chipset-level vulnerabilities which allow hackers to seize control over system processes and affect nearly every chip manufactured in the...
Microsoft Expands Spectre and Meltdown Protection to Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs
Microsoft is still on the journey of patching the hardware-related Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities to make Windows systems more secure. The Redmond giant has...
Intel Didn’t Alert US Govt Officials till After Spectre, Meltdown Flaws Were Made Public
Meltdown and Spectre continue to haunt Intel and the trouble could get far worse for the company, after the most recent development. According to...
Intel Faces 35 Lawsuits Over Spectre and Meltdown Fiasco
It looks Intel will not have any respite from Spectre and Meltdown just yet. The two biggest vulnerabilities in CPUs will torment the chipmaker...
New CPU Exploits Based on Meltdown and Spectre Discovered
Chipset exploits - Meltdown and Spectre - have lately been a can of worms for product engineers and security researchers because of their wide scope,...
Intel Skylake PCs Finally Receive Stable Spectre and Meltdown Patch
The news of Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities which affected almost every device produced in the last 20 years took the whole tech world by storm....
Intel’s Next-Gen Chips to Feature Built-in Protection Against Spectre & Meltdown
Intel's updates to patch the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities were chock full of bugs, so much so that the company itself asked users to...
Google Chrome 64 for Desktop Brings Auto-Muting, Spectre and Meltdown Patches, and More
The beta version of Google Chrome 64 was spotted the last month with highly-awaited features like auto-muting, HDR support on Windows, and an enhanced...
Linus Torvalds Blasts Intel’s ‘Garbage’ Meltdown, Spectre Patches
For tech geeks, software pros and FOSS proponents worldwide, Linus Torvalds is a bonafide celebrity who isn't afraid to speak his mind. His outspoken...
Intel Asks Customers to Skip Buggy Update, and Await New Meltdown, Spectre Patches
The Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities have managed to create quite a stir since they were first revealed by Google's Project Zero team and...
Meltdown, Spectre Patches Can Randomly Reboot Intel Current-Gen CPUs Too
Spectre and Meltdown are like the ghosts that keep on haunting. No quick exorcision for these - at least not for Intel.
Every computing major...
Intel’s Bad Streak Gets Worse: Recent Security Woes Amplify AMD and Qualcomm Threat
When it rains, it pours. If anybody within Intel's management and investor circles didn't believe in the old adage before 2018, they certainly do...
Asus, MSI, Gigabyte Release BIOS Updates to Address Meltdown, Spectre
The past few weeks have witnessed the entire tech industry gauging the true extent of the damage inflicted by the recently discovered duo of...
Beware! Fake Meltdown and Spectre Patch Being Used for Spreading Malware
The recently discovered Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities have sent the whole industry into a frenzy, and while they are currently being fixed through updates,...
Spectre Patches Causing Boot-Loop Issues on Intel Broadwell, Haswell PCs
The cure can hurt you more than the disease sometimes, and that seems to be the case with Meltdown and Spectre. Every major hardware...
Spectre Patches for AMD Ryzen, EPYC Systems To Begin This Week
A new day and a new hardware vendor has announced the rollout of Spectre patches to fix the vulnerabilities. While Intel and Nvidia are...
Google Says Its Meltdown, Spectre Fixes Do Not Hamper System Performance
After the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities were discovered last month, the whole tech industry was caught in a whirlwind of questions. The major reason...