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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...

Spectre: The Next Generation
2018-05-09 16:33

Intel Preps Fixes for Eight New Spectre/Meltdown-Like CPU Flaws, Report SaysSpectre and Meltdown: It's déjà vu all over again as Intel is reportedly prepping a coordinated vulnerability disclosure...

Second wave of Spectre-like CPU security flaws won't be fixed for a while
2018-05-09 03:58

Intel needs more time and it could be Q3 before all the patches for OSes and VMs land The new bunch of Spectre-like flaws revealed last week won't be patched for at least 12 days.…

Second wave of Spectre-like flaws won't be fixed for a while
2018-05-09 03:58

Intel needs more time and it could be Q3 before all the patches for OSes and VMs land The new bunch of Spectre-like flaws revealed last week won't be patched for at least 12 days.…

8 New Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities (Spectre-NG) Found in Intel CPUs
2018-05-05 08:33

A team of security researchers has reportedly discovered a total of eight new "Spectre-class" vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs, which also affect at least a small number of ARM processors and may...

Report: Intel Facing New Spectre-Like Security Flaws
2018-05-04 20:38

Intel may be facing as many as eight new Spectre-level vulnerabilities in its chips, a German magazine alleges.

Intel Working on Patches for 8 New Spectre-Like Flaws: Report
2018-05-04 12:32

Researchers have discovered a total of eight new Spectre-like vulnerabilities, including flaws that may be more serious and easier to exploit, according to German magazine c’t. read more

Security pros: Get ready to patch for 8 new Spectre-related vulnerabilities soon
2018-05-04 12:04

A German IT magazine reported that the vulnerabilities will be disclosed in the immediate future, but patches are coming in May and August.

Fresh crop of Spectre flaws haunting Intel
2018-05-03 23:59

Chipzilla checking fresh set of CVEs in chip side-channel flaw Researchers have unearthed a fresh new set of ways attackers could potentially target the Spectre CPU vulnerabilities.…