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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...

They forked this one up: Microsoft modifies open-source code, blows hole in Windows Defender
2018-04-01 00:00

Rar! That's a scary bug A remote-code execution vulnerability in Windows Defender – a flaw that can be exploited by malicious .rar files to run malware on PCs – has been traced back to an...

Microsoft Fixes Bad Patch That Left Windows 7, Server 2008 Open to Attack
2018-03-30 18:51

Microsoft released an out-of-band security update that corrected a faulty patch that left Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 open to attack.

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...

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,...