Even security products have security flaws, and chip researchers just found a big one in Intel’s chips that can be exploited using a similar technique as the major Spectre and… Read More
One of the scarier things about the disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre chip design flaws earlier this year was that the discovery of this technique opened an entire new… Read More
After security researchers were able to exploit design flaws in modern processors that lay undetected for up to 20 years, Intel said it would redesign future chips to correct those… Read More
Intel is promising up to $250,000 to security researchers who uncover new side-channel vulnerabilities in its processors, in the wake of the Meltdown and Spectre exploits that took advantage of… Read More
Intel enjoyed one of its best years ever in 2017. 2018 is going to be a lot tricker. The chip giant reported its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings Thursday afternoon, setting… Read More
That didn’t take long: the leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee within the U.S. House of Representatives sent letters to the CEOs of six companies involved in the effort… Read More
After it acknowledged two weeks ago that its initial fix for the Meltdown and Spectre flaws was itself flawed for users of older systems, Intel said Monday it has identified… Read More
As part of its quest to ensure “transparency” after initially insisting that the fixes for design flaws in its chips wouldn’t cause problems, Intel acknowledged late Wednesday that those fixes… Read More
Intel continued to undermine the confidence placed in its chips by more than 90 percent of data center customers on Thursday by quietly advising those customers that the fixes it… Read More
2018 greeted CIOs around the planet in quite rude fashion, following the revelation of two 20-year-old undiscovered security flaws in the chips that run their clouds and data centers last… Read More
After several days of dodging questions about the performance impact of patches designed to fix the Meltdown/Spectre chip design flaws, Microsoft acknowledged Tuesday morning that Windows Server is now slower… Read More
Microsoft has temporarily stopped distributing patches to computers and devices running AMD processors after acknowledging that its Windows security updates for the vulnerabilities known as Meltdown and Spectre left some… Read More
Just how serious are the Meltdown and Spectre microprocessor vulnerabilities for Intel? Enough for the company’s CEO Brian Krzanich to divert from its otherwise glitzy CES keynote in Las Vegas to… Read More
As the public fallout from a 20-year-old design flaw that left Intel processors unprotected continues, the company told employees Monday that it is creating a new group to focus on… Read More
Cloud users and data center managers began to understand the performance effects of the patches required by the Meltdown/Spectre chip vulnerabilities over the weekend. While it seems initial fears of… Read More
Meltdown and Spectre. You’ve probably been hearing these terms a lot. These are vulnerabilities discovered in many of the computer processors used not only in our computers and devices but… Read More
Hours after reports spread about design flaws in Intel processors that could have compromised an enormous number of computers, the chip maker and security researchers released details about two vulnerabilities… Read More
(Editors note: This story and the video below contain profanity). “I’m pissed off. I’m sad. I’m ashamed. I’m angry.” We hear ya, Dave. This morning, in a very public, very… Read More