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What’s Going On With The Spectre and Meltdown Patches?
Earlier this month, computer security expects dropped a bombshell on the internet. A pair of vulnerabilities titled Spectre and Meltdown that date back to 1995 were putting a wide variety of computers, smartphones and internet browsers at risk.
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Google Says their Spectre And Meltdown Fix Is The Best While AMD Backtracks
Spectre and Meltdown continue to be a major issue for Intel as it also scrambles to deal with a vulnerability in the Intel Management Engine BIOS Extension. But Google says its fix for CVE 2017-5715 (commonly called Variant 2 of Spectre) can fix the problem with negligible impact on system performance, contrary to Intel’s fix.
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What Are Spectre And Meltdown, And Why Should You Care?
Spectre and Meltdown are the collective names for three different vulnerabilities found in the processors powering a vast number of the computing devices we rely on, from desktop and notebook PCs through to smartphones and other gadgets. And while many people are aware that these vulnerabilities exist and that tech companies are doing their best…
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Meltdown And Spectre Alert: Check This List To See If You’re Still Vulnerable
Security researchers revealed disastrous flaws in processors manufactured by Intel and other companies this week. The vulnerabilities, which were discovered by Google’s Project Zero and nicknamed Meltdown and Spectre, can cause data to leak from kernel memory — which is really not ideal since the kernel is central to operating systems and handles a bunch…