Researchers have identified three new vulnerabilities affecting Intel CPUs. All three are Spectre-class attacks that take advantage of a CPU design feature named speculative execution. Speculative execution is a feature that is found in all modern CPUs that has the role of improving performance by computing operations in advance and later removing the unneeded data. Foreshadow/L1TF is a highly sophisticated attack method, and today, Intel is not aware of any reported real-world exploits.
Majestic Computer Technology is aware of this new speculative side channel vulnerability known as Foreshadow/L1 Terminal Fault. Microsoft has released security update on 14th August, 2018 in order to address this issue. Microsoft patch that has been released to address this issue provides protections against a new speculative execution side-channel vulnerability known as L1TF that affects Intel Core Processors and Intel Xeon Processors. This patch also make sure that previous OS protections against Spectre Variant 2 and Meltdown vulnerabilities are enabled using the registry settings.
Majestic Computer Technology’s Service Level Agreement has installed this security update on all SLA servers, giving you a sense of security and ensure that you are in safe hands.
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