Over the weekend, Microsoft rolled out out-of-band updates to disable mitigations for one of the Spectre attack variants because they can cause systems to become unstable. The situation is becoming embarrassing! Just after the release of the Meltdown and Spectre security updates Intel excluded any problems for their deployments citing testing activities of conducted by other tech […]
Red Hat is going to release updates that are reverting previous patches for the Spectre vulnerability (Variant 2, aka CVE-2017-5715). Just after the release of Spectre and Meltdown patches many experts argued a significative impact on performance and stability of systems running them. While Meltdown and Spectre Variant 1 could be theoretically being addressed by […]