- Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
- By Marius Nestor
- January 13th, 2018
How to Check If Your Linux PC Is Vulnerable to Meltdown & Spectre Security Flaws
These are the worse chip flaws in the history of computing
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 12th, 2018
Canonical Says It'll Release New Ubuntu Kernels to Further Mitigate Spectre Bugs
The new kernels will be available early next week
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 11th, 2018
Intel's Microcode Update for Spectre Exploit Is Now Available in Ubuntu's Repos
It's available for Ubuntu 17.10, 17.04, 16.04, and 14.04
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 11th, 2018
openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Patched Against Meltdown/Spectre, Adopts LibreOffice 6.0
Mozilla Firefox 57.0.4 and KDE Frameworks 5.41.0 landed
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 10th, 2018
Canonical Fixes Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Regression Causing Boot Failure on Some PCs
Users are urged to update their systems immediately
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 10th, 2018
Debian Stretch and Jessie Get Kernel Patches to Mitigate Meltdown Security Flaw
The patch is important and all users must update
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- January 10th, 2018
Intel Releases Processor Microcode Patch for Linux OSes, Here's How to Update
Linux Processor Microcode Data File 20180108 is out now
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 10th, 2018
Canonical Releases Ubuntu Kernel and Nvidia Updates to Fix Meltdown and Spectre Updated
Updates are available for all supported Ubuntu releases
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- January 9th, 2018
Greg Kroah-Hartman on Meltdown and Spectre Bugs: Go Update Your Linux Kernel
Meltdown is fully patched, Spectre patches are still coming
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 9th, 2018
Linux Mint Devs Respond to Meltdown and Spectre Security Vulnerabilities
Patches are coming soon to all supported releases
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 9th, 2018
All Supported 4MLinux and TheSSS Releases Now Patched Against Meltdown & Spectre
Users are urged to update their systems immediately
- Apple Watch
- By Marius Nestor
- January 5th, 2018
Apple Says Apple Watch and watchOS Are Not Affected by Meltdown and Spectre Bugs
Apple Watch wearers shouldn't worry about the new exploits
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- January 5th, 2018
All Raspberry Pi Devices Are Immune to the Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities
None of the Raspberry Pi models are affected by these bugs
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- January 5th, 2018
Purism Says It's Releasing Patches to Stop Meltdown Attacks in Its Linux Laptops
Will soon release patches against Spectre variants as well
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 5th, 2018
CentOS Linux Receives Security Updates Against Meltdown and Spectre Exploits
Several packages need to be updated to patch the issues
- Windows Software
- By Bogdan Popa
- January 5th, 2018
Google Chrome to Get Meltdown and Spectre Patches on January 23
A method to remain protect already exists though
- Windows Software
- By Bogdan Popa
- January 5th, 2018
Mozilla Firefox 57.0.4 Released with Meltdown and Spectre Patches
New version of Mozilla’s browser now available for download