Security News

Siemens Informs Customers of New Meltdown, Spectre Variants
2018-07-17 19:10

Siemens recently updated its security bulletin for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities to inform customers of the latest variants, specifically the ones known as LazyFP and Spectre 1.1. read more

WebAssembly Changes Could Ruin Meltdown and Spectre Browser Patches
2018-06-27 18:26

The planned threading in shared memory update gives bad actors a way around the timer mitigations released by browser vendors.

Oracle Patches New Spectre, Meltdown Vulnerabilities
2018-06-25 04:35

Oracle announced on Friday that it has started releasing software and microcode updates for products affected by the recently disclosed variants of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. read more

Boffins offer to make speculative execution great again with Spectre-Meltdown CPU fix
2018-06-16 01:09

Good thing too because Intel's planned chip changes may break Google's Retpoline A group of computer science researchers has proposed a way to overcome the security risk posed by speculative...

Meltdown-Like 'LazyFP' Vulnerability Impacts Intel CPUs
2018-06-14 14:48

Intel and software vendors have started informing users about a new vulnerability involving side channel speculative execution that could be exploited by malicious actors to obtain sensitive...

Spectre and Meltdown Flaws: Two More Variants Discovered
2018-05-22 12:48

More CPU Flaws Found in Intel, AMD, ARM and IBM Power ProcessorsResearchers have discovered two new Spectre/Meltdown variants: variant 3a, a rogue system register read, and variant 4, a...

Tech Firms Coordinate Disclosure of New Meltdown, Spectre Flaws
2018-05-22 05:34

Intel, AMD, ARM, IBM, Microsoft and other major tech companies on Monday released updates, mitigations and advisories for two new variants of the speculative execution attack methods known as...

Microsoft, Google: We've found a fourth variant of Meltdown-Spectre CPU holes
2018-05-21 21:00

Affects Intel and other processor makers Breaking Today, Microsoft and Google Project Zero will reveal a fourth variant of the speculative-execution-based security vulnerabilities in modern...

Google Releases Additional Meltdown Mitigations for Android
2018-05-09 11:52

As part of its May 2018 Android Security Bulletin, Google this week released additional mitigations for the Meltdown attack that impacts microprocessors from Intel, AMD, and other vendors. read more

Meltdown Patch in Windows 10 Can Be Bypassed
2018-05-04 05:09

A researcher has discovered that a mitigation implemented by Microsoft in Windows 10 for the Meltdown vulnerability can be bypassed. The tech giant says it’s working on an update. According to...