New Windows patch disables Intel’s bad Spectre microcode fix
Enlarge / A closeup shot of an Intel Haswell die, with a pin for size reference. (credit: Intel) Microsoft has released a new Windows patch to disable Intel’s hardware-based mitigation for the Spectre attack due to bugs introduced by Intel’s mitigation. In the wake of the Spectre and Meltdown attacks that use the speculative execution behavior of modern processors to leak sensitive information, Intel released a microcode...