Intel’s March security updates reached its customers this week and the dominant theme is the bundle of flaws affecting Graphics drivers.
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Intel promises fix after researchers reveal ‘CacheOut’ CPU flaws
Forget the infamous Meltdown and Spectre chip flaws from 2018, the problem that’s tying down Intel’s patching team these days is a more recent class of side channel vulnerabilities known collectively as ZombieLoad.
Linux maintainer: Patching side-channel flaws is killing performance
Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the worst side-channel vulnerability of them all?
Spectre mitigation guts Linux 4.20 performance
One of Intel’s fixes for the Spectre variant 2 chip flaw appears to have taken a big bite out of the performance of the latest Linux kernel.
Intel releases firmware update for ME flaw
It’s only September and yet 2018 is well on its way to being remembered as the year of fixing flaws we didn’t realise were possible in hardware we’d never heard of.
‘Foreshadow’ flaw found in Intel CPUs – what to do
For Intel and more than a billion computers with Intel CPUs, the microprocessor flaws just keep coming.
Mozilla still working on Firefox’s site isolation security revamp
Mozilla’s Firefox browser doesn’t have site isolation security yet, but plans to enable it are in the works.
Spectre chip weakness can be used to steal data remotely
Researchers have found a new variant of the Spectre CPU flaw that shows how attackers could steal data remotely without having to run malicious code on a local system.
Intel won’t fix Spectre flaws in older chips
If your PC runs one of Intel’s older microprocessors, bad news
Microsoft’s Windows 7 Meltdown patch created ‘worse’ flaw
Microsoft’s updates for the Meltdown microprocessor mega-flaw inadvertently left users running Windows 7 64-bit systems open to a “way worse” flaw.