{"id":249683,"date":"2018-02-22T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=249683"},"modified":"2018-02-22T13:01:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T11:01:13","slug":"intel-rolls-out-spectre-patches-for-7th-and-8th-gen-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/249683-intel-rolls-out-spectre-patches-for-7th-and-8th-gen-chips.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel rolls out Spectre patches for 7th and 8th-gen chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.intel.com\/news\/latest-intel-security-news-updated-firmware-available\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started rolling out<\/a><\/strong> Spectre and Meltdown security updates for its 6th, 7th, and 8th-gen desktop processors.<\/p>\n<p>The manufacturer previously <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/248156-intel-releases-new-spectre-patch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>released a patch<\/strong><\/a> for Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities for its 6th-gen chips, but this patch was not compatible with newer desktop CPUs.<\/p>\n<p>Intel said its new updates will be made available through OEM firmware updates and will encompass all Core desktop chips from Skylake onwards, in addition to Xeon Scalable and Xeon D server processors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On behalf of all of Intel, I thank each and every one of our customers and partners for their hard work and partnership throughout this process,&#8221; said Intel&#8217;s Navin Shenoy.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/248799-intel-increases-bug-bounty-to-250000.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel increases bug bounty to $250,000<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has started rolling out new Spectre and Meltdown security updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":232227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[131,48074,49055,48076],"class_list":["post-249683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-intel","tag-meltdown","tag-security-updates","tag-spectre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249683"}],"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=249683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249749,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249683\/revisions\/249749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}