{"id":245694,"date":"2018-01-23T09:37:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T07:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=245694"},"modified":"2018-01-23T09:41:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T07:41:57","slug":"intel-patch-for-spectre-and-meltdown-causing-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/245694-intel-patch-for-spectre-and-meltdown-causing-problems.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel patch for Spectre and Meltdown causing problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has asked manufacturers and users to stop installing patches it issued for the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/243486-meltdown-vs-spectre-what-you-need-to-know.html\">Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They may introduce higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behaviour,&#8221; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.intel.com\/news\/root-cause-of-reboot-issue-identified-updated-guidance-for-customers-and-partners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Intel<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the weekend, we began rolling out an early version of the updated solution to industry partners for testing, and we will make a final release available once that testing has been completed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Intel\u00a0urged customers to maintain security best practices and advised consumers to keep their systems up to date.<\/p>\n<p>Intel is not the only company that has had problems with patches for Spectre and Meltdown.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/au\/news\/intel-stops-some-chip-patches-unexpected-reboot-meltdown-spectre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNET reported<\/a><\/strong> that Windows suspended updates to AMD PCs when users reported their machines shut down and could not boot.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/243918-intel-ceo-confirms-security-patch-will-slow-down-computers.html\">Intel CEO confirms security patch will slow down computers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has asked users to stop installing patches it issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":243488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[131,48074,48076],"class_list":["post-245694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-intel","tag-meltdown","tag-spectre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245694"}],"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=245694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245724,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245694\/revisions\/245724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}