![]() ![]() Intel knowingly sold CPUs with flaws over the holiday season, though it found out about these issues in August 2017, say the plaintiffs. It was initially thought that mitigations against the flaws would result in substantial performance reductions, but Apple later said that it had seen ‘ little to no performance hit’ from its patches, suggesting that slowdowns would not form a viable cause of action. US judge gives go ahead for suit against Intel on the third attempt. Since the announcement by the companies of the vulnerabilities of their products, we realize that we are living in a fantasy world and now realize that we do not even have a minimum of privacy.” That this is an earthquake is an understatement. The Spectre and Meltdown Checker is a script used to check if a system is potentially vulnerable to transient execution attacks such as bounds check bypass and rogue system register read. Our worst nightmares have come to pass, and a giant tech bubble has burst. Yesterday, Intel expanded its bug bounty program to catch more issues like the extensive Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws, but that was too little, too late for some chip owners. In the complaint, Zinati writes that “something new has appeared on the tech landscape. The full basis of the action isn’t revealed in the brief report in Hamodia, but appears to focus on the risk to privacy raised by the bugs. After Apple’s confirmation that all Mac and iOS devices are affected by the Spectre & Meltdown vulnerabilities, it was only a matter of time before the company was hit by a class action lawsuit …Īpple was quick to respond by issuing patches for Macs, iPhones and Safari, but that hasn’t stopped a firm of lawyers in Israel seeking permission to include the company in a lawsuit.
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