Intel and AMD updates for security vulnerabilities

[Richard Chambers]

Intel discloses 34 security holes in firmware and software — Thunderbolt, XTU, chipset drivers, and more | Tom's Hardware[^] AMD discloses slew of high severity security vulnerabilities that attacks BIOS chips on Zen systems — updates aren't available for all chips, finally a fix Zenbleed | Tom's Hardware[^]

[obermd]

This explains the rash of Dell BIOS updates I've been receiving lately.

[charlieg]

and we think https is secure.

Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

[jochance]

The maddening bit to all of this is that poking these articles further, you find stuff like the metrics for performance reduction post-patch because they can't really "fix" the hardware so we get software fixes sitting atop it and gumming up the works.