When Meltdown and Spectre were uncovered, AMD said that its CPUs aren’t vulnerable to Meltdown, the first Spectre flaw would be resolved via operating system and software updates, and “differences in ...

Operating system patches alone can protect against the nasty Meltdown flaw affecting Intel processors, but fixing Spectre—Meltdown’s nasty sibling, which affects all CPUs—requires firmware updates for ...

Ransomware is a serious problem in its current state, and it's about to get worse. All your security programs and measures will be rendered useless when ransomware comes for your CPU. Ransomware ...

ASRock has released a new firmware update, version 3.40, for its AMD 800-series motherboards. One of the changelog entries mentions improving processor operating stability, which might be connected to ...

A security researcher has created a tool to allow the extraction and analysis of AMD's Platform Security Processor firmware. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window ...

Beta AGESA 1.0.0.4 firmware played havoc with CPU – and some motherboard makers didn’t label it a beta, either When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Yuriy Bulygin, the former head of Intel's advanced threat team, has published research showing that the Spectre CPU flaws can be used to break into the highly privileged CPU mode on Intel x86 systems ...

Intel pinky-promised today that it will provide firmware updates by the end of next week for 90% of all CPU models it released in the past five years. The company said that the firmware updates will ...

Firmware updates are rare, but if ever a GPU was going to need one, it's Arc.