{"id":245183,"date":"2018-01-18T10:39:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T08:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=245183"},"modified":"2018-01-18T10:41:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T08:41:10","slug":"amd-faces-lawsuit-over-spectre-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/245183-amd-faces-lawsuit-over-spectre-vulnerability.html","title":{"rendered":"AMD faces lawsuit over Spectre vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two law firms have targeted AMD for class action lawsuits over its products&#8217; Spectre vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>Firms <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosenlegal.com\/cases-1269.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rosen<\/a> <\/strong>and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pomerantzlawfirm.com\/active-cases-content\/advancedmicro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pomerantz<\/a> <\/strong>have filed suits against AMD for failing to disclose its knowledge of the vulnerability to investors.<\/p>\n<p>The public knowledge of the Spectre vulnerability led to a drop in stock value, the suits claim.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.co.uk\/amd-targeted-class-action-spectre-vulnerabilities,news-57751.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tom&#8217;s Hardware<\/strong><\/a>, AMD said the allegations are without merit and it intends to defend itself.<\/p>\n<p>Hardware manufacturers are continuing to push out updates to protect users against the <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/243486-meltdown-vs-spectre-what-you-need-to-know.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/243372-spotify-hit-with-1-6-billion-lawsuit.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Spotify hit with $1.6-billion lawsuit<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two law firms have targeted AMD for class action lawsuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":150881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[577,48369,163,48371,48373,48076],"class_list":["post-245183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-amd","tag-class-action","tag-lawsuit","tag-pomerantz","tag-rosen","tag-spectre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245193,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245183\/revisions\/245193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}