Microsoft Issues Rare Out-of-Band Emergency Windows Update For Processor Security Bugs (theverge.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft is issuing a rare out-of-band security update to supported versions of Windows today (Wednesday). The software update is part of a number of fixes that will protect against a newly-discovered processor bug in Intel, AMD, and ARM chipsets. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the company will issue a Windows update that will be automatically applied to Windows 10 machines at 5PM ET / 2PM PT today. The update will also be available for older and supported versions of Windows today, but systems running operating systems like Windows 7 or Windows 8 won't automatically be updated through Windows Update until next Tuesday. Windows 10 will be automatically updated today.

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Re:What?

[blind biker]

There seem to be Intel sockpuppets flooding technical forums, making the false equivalence between Meltdown (affects only Intel) and Spectre (affects all CPUs), whereas Meltdown is a clearly exploitable and in fact the exploit was demonstrated in a fucking browser running a Javascript. There is no known way to exploit Spectre. Spectre does not cross userspace-kernelspace.