You will want to be sure to install relevant security updates when they become available for your devices and computers. Another option is to update operating system software to major new release versions. Apple says they have already released mitigations for Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and ...
Retbleed was announced this week, as yet another speculative execution vulnerability. This one is mitigated in hardware for AMD’s Zen 3 and Intel Generation 9 and later. For earlier devicesthe performance hit in mitigation is quite painful. What exactly makes this different from previous weaknesse...
Fix Meltdown and Spectre on Macs Fix Meltdown and Spectre on Chromebooks You’ve probably heard about the Meltdown and Spectre CPU security flaws that are making headlines around the world. So, if you’re looking to protect your device from these issues, you’ve come to the right place....
Linuxkernel developers have released three patches, each developed to deal with a specific Meltdown problem. They released a patch called KPTI (aka Kaiser), which was developed to help mitigate the Meltdown flaw. Apple has released a statementthat it has already released mitigations iniOS 11.2,...
You’ve probably heard something about “Meltdown” and “Spectre,” perhaps even in the mainstream media, and you likely heard that it has something to do with an Intel security flaw. But do you know how it affectsyourApple devices—your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch, or ...
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution Xen http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-254.html Mozilla https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations-landing-new-class-timing-attack/ VMware https://www.vmware.com/us/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0002.html ...
Mitigations for two critical architectural flaws in CPUs can cause performance degradation, but real-world impact is lower than synthetic benchmarks. Massive Intel CPU flaw: Understanding the technical details of Meltdown and Spectre(TechRepublic) ...
Nonetheless, researchers said that existing Spectre mitigations would thwart the SplitSpectre attacks. This includes CPU microcode updates that CPU vendors have released over the past year, updates to popular code compilers to harden apps against Spectre-like attacks, and the browser-level modifications...
Security researchers have found new versions of chip flaws affecting Intel and AMD processors that get around existing mitigations for Spectre attacks, resurrecting vulnerabilities that may affect Intel-based Macs. In 2018, an Intel chip kernel flaw was found that allowed attackers to gain access ...
Security researchers at Google Project Zero recently discovered‘worst’ CPU bugs Meltdown and Spectre. The security flaw has affected virtually all modern computing devices including all the Apple iPhones, iPads and Mac computers.Apple said, “All Mac systems and iOS devices are affected, but...