Earlier this year, the Spectre and Meltdown security concerns rocked the IT world. These vulnerabilities leveraged the very functionality of modern CPUs which allowed them to perform tasks so quickly – speculative execution. Fortunately for AMD, Meltdown didn’t impact their Zen line of processors (either the original or the slightly tweaked Zen+ cores), but.
Read More →Its been a couple of weeks since details first emerged of both the Spectre and Meltdown bugs, and tech companies and users are still scrambling to brace themselves for the potential disastrous security implications these vulnerabilities can bring. Security company Fortinet have already found dozens of malware samples designed to take advantage of the.
Read More →The ripples of both the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities are still being felt through the IT industry, with the past weeks being a mixture of emergency patches and fixes, speculation from analysts, stock price crashes and a lot of frustration and anger. Indeed, it is fair to say that in recent memory, there hasn’t.
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