Perhaps Meltdown and Spectre CPU design weakness headache the IT guy this month. Sounds like the overall environment covered with mist! But the sunrise will be raised finally to get rid the dark. Can you remember that replay attack on WPA2 Wifi network last year? You did OS version upgrade and change the authentication method…

About 14 hours ago VMware official announce the products mitigation plan in regards to CPU design vulnerabilities (Spectre and Meltdown). Even though mitigation plan has been released. For recent chip design weakness, once the patches are applied, developers have to rewrite code to support the patch. Perhaps VMware programming team cannot address the problem in…

All the world perhaps unhappy with existing financial world. Cyyptocurrency became stronger and stronger. We seen last year the cypto currency market activities especially Ethererum, Bitcoin told the world they have market support. Kodak pioneer jump to this hot area. (KODK)’s stock surged as much as 125% in trading after the announcement. Apparently there are…

Microsoft release patch this week objectives Windows operating system mitigations to protect against the chipset vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown. A problem encountered on AMD chip after patch installed. The system not boot. Microsoft suspected that the root causes by AV software. For  more details, please see below informative diagram for reference. The reference…

In order to avoid the effects of Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715), Apple announced solution (patching) to mitigate this vulnerabilities. It was surprise that the result looks different from the security analysis report findings. It looks that no significant performance slow down and not require to re-design CPU. However Apple computer address the problem this time…

The Chinese mantra “time can tell” looks like a witness to modern hardware and software development industry. As we know IBM mainframe (s390) and Sun SPARC given the feeling to the world in last decase was that they are far away from modern technologies. Even though S390 contains LPAR function allow multuple OS platform operation…

An urgent alert announced by US Homeland security urge computer user stay alerting of CPU design bug found this month. The victim firm Intel looks provides their comments that this know issue not encountered on their product only. As a matter of fact, this is true the side channel attack on mobile devices was happened…

Below details better than what I say thousand of words. Current status update in regards to CPU (Intel) design limitations. AMD https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution AMD proud of it, they did not made this mistake! Seems it is a long run in development,It is hard to tell this moment. Stay tuned. Good luck to him! ARM https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update Intel https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings/ Microsoft https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/eula Linux https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/22/956…

Headline news today told the world of chip design hiccups given by CPU manufacturer (Intel).  You are easy to do a google search to find out the details.  During the first announcement of virtual machine design concept come to the world, security expert foreseen that a multiple vulnerabilities will be happen in future. It looks…