{"id":248156,"date":"2018-02-08T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=248156"},"modified":"2018-02-08T15:30:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:30:49","slug":"intel-releases-new-spectre-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/248156-intel-releases-new-spectre-patch.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel releases new Spectre patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has released a new microcode update for Skylake processors to protect against the Spectre vulnerability, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2018\/02\/intel-releases-new-spectre-microcode-update-for-skylake-other-chips-remain-in-beta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ars Technica<\/strong><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Intel <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/245694-intel-patch-for-spectre-and-meltdown-causing-problems.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>previously released<\/strong><\/a> patches for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, but asked manufacturers to stop installing them as they caused unexpected reboots and unpredictable behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>The new microcode update is being rolled out to manufacturers and will only apply to 6th-generation Skylake processors.<\/p>\n<p>Owners of processors based on other architectures will have to wait for more effective microcode updates.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/246703-retpoline-googles-fix-for-spectre.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Retpoline \u2013 Google\u2019s fix for Spectre<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has released a new microcode update for Skylake processors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":243648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[131,48806,48076],"class_list":["post-248156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-intel","tag-microcode-update","tag-spectre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248156"}],"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=248156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248208,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248156\/revisions\/248208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}