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Intel has issued stable microcode to help protect its Broadwell and Haswell chips from the Spectre Variant 2 security exploits.

Siemens has released BIOS updates for several of its industrial devices to patch vulnerabilities discovered recently in Intel chips, including Meltdown, Spectre and flaws affecting the company’s...

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Previous microcode update was reported to cause unwanted system reboots.


Also, Intel Confirms Stability Problems For Some CPUs Following Firmware UpdateIn a reversal, chipmaker AMD is now warning that its chips are susceptible to the speculative execution flaws in...

Meltdown and Spectre Security Update Bricks Some PCs With Athlon CPUsSecurity teams are scrambling to put fixes for the Meltdown and Spectre flaws in place. But Windows users report that...

Details of "Meltdown" and "Spectre" Attacks Against Intel and AMD Chips Disclosed read more

Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, HPE, Lenovo, Intel and Panasonic are working on releasing patches for the recently disclosed vulnerabilities affecting Intel CPUs, but it could take a while until firmware...

As we’re waiting for security researchers to detail the Intel Management Engine vulnerability that can allow attackers to run undetectable, unsigned code on machines with Intel processors, the...