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INTEL EXPANDS BUG BOUNTY PROGRAM POST-SPECTRE AND MELTDOWN

February 22, 2018 By aatech

In the wake of the Spectre and Meltdown bugs, Intel has rolled out a significant expansion of its bug bounty program. Intel first launched the program in March 2017. The big changes include a shift from an invitation-only format to one that is open to all security researchers. One key addition is a program for […]

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Microsoft Issues Out-of-Band Fix for Intel’s Broken Spectre Patch

January 29, 2018 By aatech

Microsoft has been forced to issue an out-of-band patch to fix problems caused by a buggy Intel update for one of the Spectre vulnerabilities disclosed earlier this month. The Redmond fix (KB4078130) was issued over the weekend and disables the mitigation for branch target injection vulnerability CVE-2017-5715. The fix covers Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8.1 […]

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INTEL SAYS FIRMWARE FIXES FOR SPECTRE AND MELTDOWN AFFECTING NEWER CHIPS

January 21, 2018 By aatech

Intel’s efforts to issue fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities are still hitting some bumps in the road, a company executive said in a blog post. “We have now issued firmware updates for 90 percent of Intel CPUs introduced in the past five years, but we have more work to do,” said Navin […]

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Intel Patches CPU Bugs Impacting Millions of PCs, Servers

December 5, 2017 By aatech

Intel released patches on Monday to protect millions of PCs and servers from vulnerabilities found in its Management Engine, Trusted Execution Engine and Server Platform Services that could allow local attackers elevate privileges, run arbitrary code, crash systems and eavesdrop on communications. In a security bulletin (INTEL-SA-00086) posted late Monday, Intel said the patches were […]