Spectre

Surface users are in for a special round of updates in response to the recently disclosed Meltdown and Spectre exploits, Microsoft says.

Microsoft is rolling out a new round of firmware updates for Surface devices, bringing mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown in the process.

Researchers have discovered a new way to exploit the Spectre vulnerability on modern CPUs remotely, but existing mitigations should keep systems that have already been patched safe.

A new variant of the Meltdown and Spectre flaws has been found, but previous software patches may provide enough protection for most.

Intel now says that it won't patch some older chips against the Spectre variant 2 flaw.

Intel is going down to the hardware level to guard against Spectre with its upcoming processors.

Microsoft has kicked off a new bug bounty programs for speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities.

With March's Patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft has expanded coverage of its Meltdown and Spectre software fixes to more versions of Windows.

In an update on its efforts to combat Spectre and Meltdown, Microsoft says it is now starting to distribute microcode updates from Intel.

Intel's updated microcode intended to guard against Spectre is now available to its OEM partners.