I mean, I’m not much of a tinfoil hat, but this article feels extremely conveniently timed for Intel, who is currently going through a massive ordeal with their chips. Especially considering that the vulnerability is so extremely difficult to exploit that there’s borderline no story here for 99% of people but the headline will still drive clicks and drama.
Difficult to exploit, already in the process of being patched. Truly, the most breaking of news.
How does the patch actually get delivered? Via windows update or using something else?
Most likely. Windows update (or the Linux equivalent on your platform) will download updated microcode to load at boot time to basically be a software patch for hardware issues. At least, that’s how it was explained when the original speculative execution flaw was discovered and Intel was releasing foxes and shit for it.
and Intel was releasing foxes and shit
I realise this is an autocorrect error, but it’s still funny 🦊
Requires kernel-level access. Also AMD is “releasing mitigations,” so is it “unfixable?”
If you have kernel access you can already do almost everything so a vulnerability on top of that isn’t that bad since no one should have kernel access to your computer
You mean like Crowdstrike?
MostAll antivirus software runs at kernel level
