{"id":57672,"date":"2018-01-30T06:11:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T06:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=57672"},"modified":"2018-01-30T06:11:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T06:11:39","slug":"microsoft-issues-update-to-disable-intels-buggy-spectre-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/microsoft-issues-update-to-disable-intels-buggy-spectre-patch.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft issues update to disable Intel&#8217;s buggy Spectre patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Microsoft issues update to disable Intel&#8217;s buggy Spectre patch<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Microsoft Corp issued an emergency security update on Monday to plug Intel Corp\u2019s buggy Spectre firmware patch after the chipmaker\u2019s fix caused computers to reboot more often than normal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Microsoft said it was rolling out an out-of-band update that specifically disables Intel\u2019s Spectre variant 2 patch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The latest update comes nearly four weeks after Intel confirmed that its chips were impacted by vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown, which make data on affected computers susceptible to espionage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Windows maker said system instability triggered by Intel&#8217;s faulty patch can in some cases cause &#8220;data loss or corruption&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Microsoft said its latest update prevented computers to reboot unexpectedly and urged affected customers to manually download it from the Microsoft Update Catalog website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Meltdown was specific to chips from Intel as well as one from SoftBank Group Corp\u2019s ARM Holdings. Spectre affected nearly every modern computing device, including ones with chips from Intel, ARM and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Last week, Intel said that patches it released to address the two high-profile security vulnerabilities in its chips are faulty, advising customers, computer makers and cloud providers to stop installing them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">\u00a0Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-cyber-intel-microsoft\/microsoft-issues-update-to-disable-intels-buggy-spectre-patch-idUSKBN1FJ0CU<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/microsoft-issues-update-to-disable-intels-buggy-spectre-patch.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft issues update to disable Intel&#8217;s buggy Spectre patch Microsoft Corp issued an emergency security update on Monday to plug Intel Corp\u2019s buggy Spectre firmware patch after the chipmaker\u2019s fix caused computers to reboot more often than normal. 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