Meltdown CPU security flaw

Living in the Shadow of Spectre After fumbling their first attempt at patching the Spectre vulnerability, Microsoft has released Security Update 4078407. According to their security advisory, “applying this update will enable the Spectre Variant 2 mitigation CVE-2017-5715 – “Branch...

Intel Warns of Faulty Meltdown and Spectre Patches If you thought the Meltdown and Spectre threat had passed, Intel has some bad news: don’t install their updates! In a statement released by Intel, their EVP Neil Shenoy stated: “We recommend...

Hacked Within a Minute Intel is dominating the cybersecurity headlines again for the wrong reasons. F-Secure, a Finnish based cybersecurity firm, has reported their researchers discovered an easy manipulation of Intel Active Management Technology, or AMT, which bypasses the login...

Patch Priorities and Dealing with Spectre Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis. This has been widely breaking the news over...

Protect Yourself from the Worldwide 'Meltdown' Reports across the internet are confirming that every CPU since 1995, whether it’s Intel, AMD, ARM, or other, has a major security flaw. According to Google’s Project Zero, and admissions by the CPU’s own...