meltdown
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VMware
VMware patches new Intel speculative execution microarchitectural data sampling MDS vulnerability
Perhaps the biggest security news of 2018 was the CPU flaws discovered with speculative execution vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs specifically and also AMD flaws discovered as well. Over a year later now we have news of a new speculative execution…
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Security
New Intel Vulnerability Foreshadow L1 Terminal Fault VMware Affected
Yet another security vulnerability has been discovered that is based on the Spectre and Meltdown attacks found in Intel processors. The new exploit is called Foreshadow and exploits Intel’s SGX technology which is ironically designed to protect sensitive data such…
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VMware
Runecast Analyzer 1.7 vSAN Support Visualization Improvements and New Web Plugins
When it comes to supporting, maintaining, and operationalizing a VMware vSphere environment, everything needs to be carried out in accordance with best practices. VMware is the expert of their own product for obvious reasons and following what they document as…
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Processors
Is Meltdown fixed in Intel Xeon D-2100 Processor?
The Intel Meltdown vulnerability and then the more general and broad vulnerability in Spectre have certainly been one of the most talked about hardware security vulnerabilities in modern history. The past several weeks since the vulnerability was disclosed have been…
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Security
Critical bugs of Intel Processors revealed. AMD and ARM chips are also affected.
What’s All the Fuss About the Intel Bugs? At the beginning of this year, Google’s Project Zero made a bombshell of an announcement: they had discovered critical security flaws affecting Intel central processing units (CPUs) produced since 1995. Due to…
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VMware
Roll Back VMware Meltdown and Spectre Microcode Patch
Update 1.24.2018 with William Lam PowerCLI code link The last several days have certainly been a rollercoaster ride for VMware administrators and others who have been keeping a close eye on the latest news related to Meltdown and Spectre. There…
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VMware
VMware Performance Impact of Meltdown and Spectre Patches
Update 3.20.2018 – VMware has released vSphere 6.5 U1G which has a newly released microcode update Update 1.17.2018 – Firmware Updates and Initial Performance Data for Data Center Systems Update 1.13.2018 – Due to recent Intel sighting VMware now recommending…
