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Faculty of Science and Information Technology => Recent Technologies and Trends in Software Engineering => Software Engineering => Cyber and Software Security => Topic started by: maruf.swe on March 30, 2019, 02:03:49 AM
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Microsoft has released new Spectre mitigations for Windows 10, which include Intel microcode fixes for CPUs running on Windows.
Microsoft has released additional Windows 10 mitigations for the Spectre side-channel flaw revealed in January, with an expanded lineup of firmware (microcode) updates for Intel CPUs that include the Broadwell and Haswell chipsets.
The company released two Windows Update packages addressing Spectre, KB4091666 and KB4078407, both available as manual downloads from the Microsoft Update Catalog portal. The former contains the Intel microcode updates.
These latest releases come on the heels of Microsoft’s initial debut of Intel CPU microcode fixes in March, KB4090007, which addressed some Skylake devices running the most broadly installed version of Windows 10. With these additional updates, the firmware lineup now covers most Skylake, Haswell and Broadwell chips.
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