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Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2018

Microsoft: Meltdown and Spectre patches could cause noticeable performance slowdowns

Microsoft officially confirmed that Meltdown and Spectre patches could cause noticeable performance slowdowns contrary to what initially thought. Just after the disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, many security experts argued that forthcoming patches will have a significant impact on the performance (30% degradation), but Intel pointed out that average users will not notice any difference. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2018

Microsoft KB4056892 Meltdown/Spectre patch bricks AMD Athlon-powered machines

Many users claim the Security Update for Windows KB4056892, the Microsoft Meltdown/Spectre patch, bricks AMD Athlon-powered machines. Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities will continue to create a lot of problems to users and chip vendors. As you know, tech giants like Apple, Cisco and Microsoft admitted the problem for their products and started rolling out security […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2018

Cisco is going to release security patches for Meltdown and Spectre attacks

Cisco is going to release security patches for Meltdown and Spectre attacks, the company is currently investigating its entire products portfolio. Cisco published a security advisory on the CPU Side-Channel information disclosure vulnerabilities that are exploited in the Spectre and Meltdown attacks and announced it is going to release security updates to protect its customers. Switchzilla announced it […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2018

Intel releases patches to mitigate Meltdown and Spectre attacks

Meltdown and Spectre attacks – According to Intel, by the end of the next week, the company will have issued security patches for more than 90% of chips commercialized in the past 5 years. White hat hackers from Google Project Zero this week disclosed the details of Meltdown and Spectre attacks targeting CPUs from major manufacturers, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2018

Meltdown and Spectre attacks affect almost any processor, including Intel, ARM, AMD ones

The Meltdown and Spectre attacks could allow attackers to steal sensitive data which is currently processed on the computer. Almost every modern processor is vulnerable to the ‘memory leaking’ flaws, this has emerged from technical analysis triggered after the announcement of vulnerabilities in Intel Chips. White hackers from Google Project Zero have disclosed the vulnerabilities that potentially impact […]

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Microsoft: Meltdown and Spectre patches could cause noticeable performance slowdowns

Microsoft KB4056892 Meltdown/Spectre patch bricks AMD Athlon-powered machines

Cisco is going to release security patches for Meltdown and Spectre attacks

Intel releases patches to mitigate Meltdown and Spectre attacks

Meltdown and Spectre attacks affect almost any processor, including Intel, ARM, AMD ones

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