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Microsoft's Windows 7 Meltdown fixes from January, February made PCs MORE INSECURE
2018-04-01 00:00

You'll want to install the March update. Like right now – if you can avoid broken networking Microsoft's January and February security fixes for Intel's Meltdown processor vulnerability opened up...

Microsoft patches patch for Meltdown bug patch: Windows 7, Server 2008 rushed an emergency fix
2018-04-01 00:00

If at first you don't succeed, you're Redmond Microsoft today issued an emergency security update to correct a security update it issued earlier this month to correct a security update it issued...

Mad March Meltdown! Microsoft's patch for a patch for a patch may need another patch
2018-04-01 00:00

If at first, er, second, ah, third, no, fourth, you fail, sadly, you're probably Redmond Updated Days after Microsoft released its third attempt at a fix for the Meltdown security vulnerability in...

Microsoft Fixes Windows Flaw Introduced by Meltdown Patches
2018-03-30 04:29

Microsoft has released out-of-band updates for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to address a serious privilege escalation vulnerability introduced earlier this year by the Meltdown...

Microsoft's Meltdown Patch Made Windows 7 PCs More Insecure
2018-03-29 15:03

Meltdown CPU vulnerability was bad, and Microsoft somehow made the flaw even worse on its Windows 7, allowing any unprivileged, user-level application to read content from and even write data to...

Bad Microsoft Meltdown Patch Made Some Windows Systems Less Secure
2018-03-28 16:25

Researcher finds Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday release included a fix for the Intel Meltdown bug, however the update opened up a new vulnerability.

Microsoft Patches for Meltdown Introduced Severe Flaw: Researcher
2018-03-28 11:03

Some of the Windows updates released by Microsoft to mitigate the Meltdown vulnerability introduce an even more severe security hole, a researcher has warned. Microsoft has released patches for...

More Chrome OS Devices Receive Meltdown, Spectre Patches
2018-03-22 14:36

The latest stable channel update for Google’s Chrome OS operating system includes mitigations for devices with Intel processors affected by the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. Meltdown and...

New Intel processors to have hardware-based protections against Meltdown, Spectre 2
2018-03-19 20:03

Intel has officially pushed out microcode updates with Spectre and Meltdown mitigations for all of the processors it launched in the past five years. In addition to this, the company’s CEO...

Microsoft Offers Payouts for New Spectre, Meltdown Flaws
2018-03-19 14:02

Bug Bounty Program Seeks to Avoid Further Speculative Execution UnpleasantnessTo help identify and mitigate the next generation of Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution flaws in CPUs,...