Microsoft's new bug bounty program is specifically for «speculative execution
side channel vulnerabilities» like Spectre and Meltdown which affected Intel chips, as well as AMD and ARM processors in the case of the former.
The firm says it will share any findings and research with other affected companies to collaborate on fixes, because «speculative execution
side channel vulnerabilities require an industry response».
Microsoft wants security researchers to search for and report speculative execution
side channel vulnerabilities (a hardware vulnerability...
Not exact matches
We've now completed release of microcode updates for Intel microprocessor products launched in the last 9 + years that required protection against the
side -
channel vulnerabilities discovered by Google.
Today, Google Project Zero published details of a class of
vulnerabilities which can be exploited by speculative execution
side -
channel These techniques can be used via JavaScript code running in the browser, which may allow attackers to gain access to memory... Read more
Just last month, US researchers demonstrated BranchScope, a new CPU
vulnerability related to the Spectre that they said was the first to enable a
side -
channel attack that extracts information through the CPU's branch predictor.
«We've now completed release of microcode updates for Intel microprocessor products launched in the last 9 + years that required protection against the
side -
channel vulnerabilities discovered by Google,» said an Intel spokesman.
Consumers with Intel devices will need to install software updates from operating - system providers and firmware updates from hardware makers to fully mitigate the trio of speculative
side -
channel vulnerabilities revealed by Google's Project Zero researchers.
Today, Google Project Zero published details of a class of
vulnerabilities which can be exploited by speculative execution
side -
channel attacks.
He warned that speculative execution
side -
channel vulnerabilities «require an industry response» and said that Microsoft would share the research disclosed to it in the program under the coordinated
vulnerability disclosure principles.
Of the three
side -
channel attacks making up Spectre and Meltdown, the first Spectre
vulnerability variant has essentially been patched via software.
On January 22, three weeks after releasing microcode updates to address the speculative execution
side -
channel vulnerabilities, Intel advised PC makers to halt the deployment of its Spectre patches due to unexpected system reboots and in some instances data loss.
Microsoft explains that with the use of speculative execution
side -
channel attacks, the
vulnerabilities can be exploited when a JavaScript code is running in the browser, this allows the attackers to steal passwords.
Windows Server guidance to protect against speculative execution
side -
channel vulnerabilities
Nothing groundbreaking here, I am just collating advisories and press releases from vendors as I find them that relate to the recently disclosed issues regarding speculative execution
side -
channel vulnerabilities.
«We've now completed release of microcode updates for Intel microprocessor products launched in the last 9 + years that required protection against the
side -
channel vulnerabilities discovered by Google Project Zero,» said Intel in a statement to Threatpost.
«We have now released microcode updates for 100 percent of Intel products launched in the past five years that require protection against the
side -
channel method
vulnerabilities discovered by Google,» Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced in a Thursday blog post.