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Major security flaw in millions of Intel chips
Posted on 1/3/18 at 9:16 pm
Posted on 1/3/18 at 9:16 pm
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A serious flaw in the design of Intel's chips will require Microsoft, Linux and Apple to update operating systems for computers around the world.
It is believed to affect chips in millions of computers from the last decade.
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said it was aware of the issue and that patches were being produced.
In response, Intel said the issue was not limited to its processors and that it was working on a fix.
"Based on analysis to date, many types of computing devices - with many different vendors' processors and operating systems - are susceptible to these exploits," it said in a statement.
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Experts have said that the fix could slow down the performance of computers by up to 30% but Intel played this down, saying that "for the average user, performance impacts should not be significant and will be mitigated over time".
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Shares in Intel were down almost 6% in US trading after the issue was revealed, and ended the trading session close 3.4% lower.
A serious flaw in the design of Intel's chips will require Microsoft, Linux and Apple to update operating systems for computers around the world.
It is believed to affect chips in millions of computers from the last decade.
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said it was aware of the issue and that patches were being produced.
In response, Intel said the issue was not limited to its processors and that it was working on a fix.
"Based on analysis to date, many types of computing devices - with many different vendors' processors and operating systems - are susceptible to these exploits," it said in a statement.
...
Experts have said that the fix could slow down the performance of computers by up to 30% but Intel played this down, saying that "for the average user, performance impacts should not be significant and will be mitigated over time".
...
Shares in Intel were down almost 6% in US trading after the issue was revealed, and ended the trading session close 3.4% lower.
This post was edited on 1/3/18 at 9:17 pm
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Posted on 1/3/18 at 9:18 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Experts have said that the fix could slow down the performance of computers by up to 30%
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck Intel
Posted on 1/3/18 at 9:18 pm to DavidTheGnome
Intel screwed us!
CLAP, CLAP, CLAP CLAP CLAP!
EDIT: Been following this all day. It's one hell of a frickup. Billions upon billions of dollars in R&D going back at least a decade missed this and literally every modern Intel based computer is wide open vulnerable and the fix cripples the chip for applications requiring lots of system calls. Don't for a second think that the legal teams at places like Amazon Web Services whose businesses were wide open to attack because of this and are essentially going to effectively lose 30% of the computing capacity they paid for to mitigate the flaw in Intel's design aren't going to try to jam it in as hard as they can without lube. I wouldn't at all be surprised to see a class-action on behalf of the individual consumers as well.
Intel just thought the Pentium division error was bad. This has the real potential to sink the company.
CLAP, CLAP, CLAP CLAP CLAP!
EDIT: Been following this all day. It's one hell of a frickup. Billions upon billions of dollars in R&D going back at least a decade missed this and literally every modern Intel based computer is wide open vulnerable and the fix cripples the chip for applications requiring lots of system calls. Don't for a second think that the legal teams at places like Amazon Web Services whose businesses were wide open to attack because of this and are essentially going to effectively lose 30% of the computing capacity they paid for to mitigate the flaw in Intel's design aren't going to try to jam it in as hard as they can without lube. I wouldn't at all be surprised to see a class-action on behalf of the individual consumers as well.
Intel just thought the Pentium division error was bad. This has the real potential to sink the company.
This post was edited on 1/4/18 at 7:26 am
Posted on 1/3/18 at 9:19 pm to DavidTheGnome
Website on the problems: LINK
Posted on 1/3/18 at 9:22 pm to DavidTheGnome
You just have to torque the flux capacitor to .04 Newtons per square nanometer
Posted on 1/3/18 at 9:35 pm to Breesus
The flaws go back on everything from them for over a decade, so if you have an intel cpu you’re vulnerable. AMD chips are vulnerable to one of the issues but doesn’t seem to be to all of them.
30% hit in CPU performance. God damnit.
30% hit in CPU performance. God damnit.
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:19 pm to DavidTheGnome
:inb4RFIDchips:
Posted on 1/3/18 at 11:14 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Experts have said that the fix could slow down the performance of computers by up to 30% but Intel played this down, saying that "for the average user, performance impacts should not be significant and will be mitigated over time".
Okay.
So I’m moving my gaming desktop to a DMZ part of the network, and not doing any work/finance on it anymore.
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