Slay Spectre and Meltdown With No Penalty?
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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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 8, 2018 | General Tech | 1
Researchers in Austria have found a way to utilize Meltdown to hack Galaxy S7 smartphones, a bad sign for security. It was previously discovered that ARM's Cortex A75 was susceptible to the…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 27, 2018 | General Tech | 1
Wasn't it hilarious when Microsoft released a patch for the Meltdown flaw that made things even worse by allowing write access to kernel memory as well as read access? Well, if you…
Read Moreby Ryan Shrout | Mar 15, 2018 | Processors | 19
In continuing follow up from the spectacle that surrounded the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities released in January, Intel announced that it has provided patches and updates that address 100%...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 28, 2018 | General Tech | 0
With the new improved Intel patches to protect against Spectre and Meltdown, The Tech Report made the effort to revisit the performance impact you can expect on a system with a Core…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 29, 2018 | General Tech | 6
This story has initiated a lot of guesswork and is likely not as bad as it is being made out to be, however it is a great example of how not to…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 26, 2018 | General Tech | 6
Brian Krzanich, still the lead at Intel, announced that new Intel chips will arrive in 2018 which are immune to Spectre and Meltdown. This is interesting in several ways, and may offer…
Read Moreby Josh Walrath | Jan 26, 2018 | Editorial | 12
This afternoon Intel released their Q4 2017 financial results. The quarter was higher in revenue than was expected by analysts. The company made $17.1B US in revenue…
Read Moreby Ken Addison | Jan 25, 2018 | General Tech | 7
PC Perspective Podcast #484 - 01/25/18 Join us this week for a recap of news and reviews including new SSDs from Samsung, updates on Spectre and Meltdown, and building the ultimate Plex server, and…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 23, 2018 | General Tech | 3
TechSpot ran two Dell XPS 13 ultraportables, one powered by a Broadwell era i5-5200U and one with a Coffee Lake i7-8550U, through a battery of benchmarks and tasks to see what effect…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jan 23, 2018 | Processors | 3
A couple of weeks ago, Intel acknowledged reports that firmware updates for Spectre and Meltdown resulted in reboots and other stability issues. At the time, they still suggested that end-users...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 22, 2018 | General Tech | 7
Spectre and Meltdown are about as bad as vulnerabilities can get, offering significant security issues on a wide variety of processors with only a band aid solution currently available. It seems Intel…
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