Tag Archives: Meltdown

Spectre/Meltdown Update: Haswell and Broadwell Processors Now Have The Production Go Ahead From Intel

Posted on March 1, 2018 by VirtuallyAware

Both Dell and HP have released System ROMs to protected against the Spectre variant 2 vulnerabity for their Haswell and Broadwell line of servers which encompasses most of the PowerEdge 13G line and the HP Gen9 server lines.  Last week … Continue reading →

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HP Gen10/Skylake-SP Servers now have a new System ROM available for Spectre Vulnerability.

Posted on February 22, 2018 by VirtuallyAware

HP has released key System ROMs for their Proliant Gen10 servers to mitigate Variant 2 vulnerabilities for Spectre.  See the release notes HERE Explanation of different Variants of the Spectre/Meltdown Vulnerabilities from HP’s article (Release Microcode pertains to Variant 2): … Continue reading →

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Latest Article – Preserve Hyper-V security from Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

Posted on February 14, 2018 by VirtuallyAware

A complementary article to my last blog post here, but this time focusing on how to protect Hyper-V VMs from the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities have admins scrambling for safety, and virtualization presents a particular … Continue reading →

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Hyper-V and Spectre/Meltdown: Protecting Your Hosts – Do This!

Posted on January 9, 2018 by VirtuallyAware

There is a lot of information swirling around out there on what to do with the latest Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities. Whereas I can’t tell you how to solve the vulnerabilities for for every Hardware and Operating System combination, I can tell … Continue reading →

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