Tag: Linus Torvalds
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Last Years Open Source – Tomorrow’s Vulnerabilities
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Linus Torvalds warns: Watch out for this unusually nasty bug in Linux 5.12 rc1
Linus Torvalds has issued a warning to open-source developers to avoid the first release candidate (RC) of the Linux kernel 5.12. Linux …
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New year, new rant: Linus Torvalds rails at Intel for ‘killing’ the ECC industry
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has accused Intel of preventing widespread use of error-correcting memory and being “instrumental in killing …
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Linus Torvalds rejects ‘beyond stupid’ AWS-made Linux patch for Intel CPU Snoop attack
Linux kernel head Linus Torvalds has trashed a patch from Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineers that was aimed at mitigating the Snoop attack …
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‘Beyond stupid’: Linus Torvalds trashes 5.8 Linux kernel patch over opt-in Intel CPU bug mitigation
Linus Torvalds has removed a patch in the next release of the Linux kernel intended to provide additional opt-in mitigation of attacks …
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Linus Torvalds To Add “Lockdown” Security Feature In Linux 5.4
After fiddling with the idea for a long time, Linus Torvalds has finally decided to add “lockdown” security feature in Linux Kernel …
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Linus Torvalds opts for the scream test: Linux kernel syscall tweaked to shut data-leak hole – anyone upset, yell now
The Linux kernel will be tweaked to mitigate data-stealing attacks that exploit system page caches. As we revealed first over the weekend, …
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Spectre mitigation guts Linux 4.20 performance
One of Intel’s fixes for the Spectre variant 2 chip flaw (CVE- 2017-5715) appears to have taken a big bite out of the performance of the …
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Linus Torvalds talks frankly about Intel security bugs
Linus Torvalds talks frankly about Intel security bugs Linus Torvalds thinks Intel has gotten better about keeping the Linux open-source …
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Linus Torvalds slams CTS Labs over AMD vulnerability report
CTS Labs, a heretofore unknown Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup, has claimed it’s found over a dozen security problems with AMD Ryzen …
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Linux creator slams Intel for crappy Meltdown/Spectre patches
Intel’s had a (mostly) crappy start to the year, thanks to the revelation of Meltdown and Spectre, two major security flaws affecting a …
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‘WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?’ Linus Torvalds explodes at Intel spinning Spectre fix as a security feature
Intel’s fix for Spectre variant 2 – the branch target injection design flaw affecting most of its processor chips – is not to fix it. …
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