Meltdown

Microsoft enabled Retpoline mitigations against the Spectre Variant 2 for Windows 10

Microsoft started rolling out a new software update for Windows 10 systems to apply mitigations against the Spectre attacks. Over…

5 years ago

Boffins discovered seven new Meltdown and Spectre attacks

Researchers who devised the original Meltdown and Spectre attacks disclosed seven new variants that leverage on a technique known as transient…

5 years ago

Intel pays a $100K bug bounty for the new CPU Spectre 1.1 flaw

A team of researchers has discovered new variant of the famous Spectre attack (Spectre 1.1), and Intel has paid a $100,000…

6 years ago

Oracle issued security patches for recently discovered Spectre and Meltdown issues

Last week Oracle started releasing software and microcode updates for products affected by the recently disclosed variants of the Spectre…

6 years ago

Tech giants are all working on new Spectre and Meltdown attacks, so-called variant 3 and variant 4

Yesterday AMD, ARM, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and other major tech firms released updates, mitigations and published security advisories for two new variants…

6 years ago

May 2018 Android Security Bulletin includes additional Meltdown fix

Google releases additional Meltdown mitigations for Android as part of the May 2018 Android Security Bulletin. The tech giant also addresses…

6 years ago

Spectre-NG – Researchers revealed 8 new varieties of the Spectre flaws

A group of security researchers has reportedly discovered 8 new varieties of the Spectre vulnerabilities, dubbed Spectre-Next Generation or Spectre-NG, that affect Intel CPUs. A German…

6 years ago

AMD and Microsoft release microcode and operating system updates against Spectre flaw

AMD released patches for Spectre Variant 2 attack that includes both microcode and operating system updates. AMD and Microsoft worked…

6 years ago

BranchScope is a new side-channel attack method against Intel chip

  BranchScope is a new side-channel attack technique that like Meltdown and Spectre attacks can be exploited by an attacker to…

6 years ago

Google is distributing more Meltdown and Spectre Patches for Chrome OS devices

Google announced that mitigations for devices with Intel processors that are affected by the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities will be available…

6 years ago

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