Tag: Spectre

Microsoft expands ongoing efforts to patch Meltdown, Spectre bugs

Microsoft has made its plans of expanding its ongoing efforts to patch the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities official. The Redmond technology giant plans on taking this initiative forward into two …

Researchers find new ways to exploit Spectre, Meltdown vulnerabilities

The security industry is at the edge of its seat especially after the discovery of two classes of exploits in Intel’s processors, i.e., Meltdown and Spectre. Earlier this year, researchers …

Intel doesn’t want to talk about Spectre, Meltdown

Intel clearly isn’t having a good start to 2018, ever since the highly-controversial Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities were revealed. It all happened at the wrong time. Fortunately for Intel, they …

Chips are exposed to Spectre, Meltdown: AMD

Advanced Micro Devices or as popularly identified as, AMD on Thursday, 11th January made an announcement, stating that its microprocessors were susceptible to both variants of the recently-revealed security flaws, …

This is how Spectre updates can slow your PC down

In a surprising turn of events, Microsoft has gone on to reveal how Spectre and Meltdown firmware updates can potentially impact a PC’s performance. The technology industry has been struggling …