Intel has finally released
stable microcode updates for Broadwell and Haswell processor series to mitigate the second variant of the nasty Spectre security vulnerability unearthed last month.
Microsoft will re-enable this protection in the future when Intel releases
stable microcode updates.
As of February 20, Intel has released
stable microcode updates for Skylake, Kaby Lake, and Coffee Lake — that's the 6th, 7th, and 8th Generation Intel Core platforms.
thehackernews.com - Intel has released new
stable microcode update for its Skylake processors to patch Spectre vulnerability.
Not exact matches
The
updates signal that Intel is making progress on reissuing
stable microcode mitigations for the Spectre attack revealed by Google on January 3.
The new
microcode updates seem
stable and we haven't seen reports of widespread problems.
Users are urged to install the latest
microcode firmware
update for their processors if a
stable version is available from Intel's website or through the software repositories of their respective operating system.