Ghosts Of Spectres Past Return To Haunt AMD And Intel
If you had hoped that the Spectre flaw had finally been exorcised and sent back to the grave then we have some bad news for you. Recently Intel's security team, which goes…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 14, 2022 | General Tech | 0
If you had hoped that the Spectre flaw had finally been exorcised and sent back to the grave then we have some bad news for you. Recently Intel's security team, which goes…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 24, 2021 | General Tech | 0
Researchers at the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science have some great news ... theoretically anyways. ZeRØ adds a new set of memory instructions as well as and a new…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 15, 2021 | General Tech | 0
The Spectre exploit certainly lives up to it's name, living on to haunt older hardware like Intel's Skylake family of CPUs but the news is not all horrible. Google have released proof-of-concept…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 14, 2020 | Processors | 2
As long as speculative execution exists on multi-core processors we are going to see exploits similar in nature to Spectre and Meltdown which means the focus needs to be on protecting your…
Read Moreby PCPer Staff | Aug 9, 2019 | General Tech | 3
Join us this week as we discuss the new Zen-2 based EPYC “Rome” processors, take a look at AMD’s Q2 financial results, review an RGB ambient lighting kit from NZXT, and more! Our…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 7, 2019 | General Tech | 2
We only found out about the SWAPGS variant of Spectre V1 which affects Intel processors yesterday, but apparently Microsoft quietly pushed a Windows 10 patch for it last month. The...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | May 24, 2019 | Processors | 0
Phoronix have spent a large chunk of time testing the effect Spectre, Meltdown, L1TF/Foreshadow, and Zombieload have on the performance of AMD and Intel chips and have noticed a definite...
Read Moreby Jim Tanous | Mar 18, 2019 | Processors | 0
AMD has issued a support article stating that its CPUs are not susceptible to the recently disclosed SPOILER vulnerability. Support Article PA-240 confirms initial beliefs that AMD processors were...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 5, 2019 | General Tech | 4
******Update***** A spokesperson from Intel reached out to provide a statement for us. “Intel received notice of this research, and we expect that software can be protected against such issues by employing...
Read Moreby Tim Verry | Mar 5, 2019 | General Tech | 3
Microsoft recently detailed its testing of retpoline optimizations present in Windows Insider Preview builds of its Windows 10 operating system (18272 and newer) and has announced that starting with Microsoft...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Dec 10, 2018 | General Tech | 4
The discovery of yet another variant of Spectre vulnerability is not good news for already exhausted security experts or reporters, but there is something new in this story which offers a…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 15, 2018 | General Tech | 1
Happy Thursday, here's some new Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities to cheer you up, including the first Meltdown flaw to which AMD chips are vulnerable to delayed exception handling. That brings the tally…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 24, 2018 | General Tech | 7
In a move which should not come as a shock to anyone, Intel removed the wording which was revealed yesterday along with their Foreshadow patch for desktop CPUs prohibiting publishing comparative performance…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 12, 2018 | General Tech | 8
Chrome's predilection for gobbling up vast amounts of RAM will soon increase to new levels but it is for a very good reason. Chrome 67 will offer a Site Isolation feature which…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 13, 2018 | General Tech | 8
If your Win10 machine did not go beep in the night, you might want to get on that reboot as there are numerous security patches waiting to install. One of them is…
Read Moreby Alex Lustenberg | May 24, 2018 | General Tech | 3
PC Perspective Podcast #500 - 05/24/18 Join us this week for discussion on Steam cache, Ultra ultra wide Samsung monitor, and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | May 22, 2018 | Processors | 1
Security researchers at Microsoft and Google have found two new vulnerabilities along the lines of the Spectre and Meltdown bugs from early January. These are being called Spectre 3a (Rogue...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 4, 2018 | General Tech | 4
Processors fabbed by Intel over the last decade are all vulnerable to one of the Spectre vulnerabilities which were revealed, even after the patches and microcode updates which have been released to…
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