01/03 - Will Y'all Chill Wednesday?

btw OSX and linux are affected as well but basically just update your shit and you should be golden.

You might experience a 5-30% (the high end is only really for VMs) performance loss but there aren't many benchmarks yet .. or well any

 

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Do you happen to know if it would affect anything related to CIS courses? I've got an i5-4690k and want to make sure I've got enough juice under the hood for my future course-work.

 

You should still be fine and the issue is pretty crazy so you are going to want to patch it asap.

Meltdown

Meltdown breaks the most fundamental isolation between user applications and the operating system. This attack allows a program to access the memory, and thus also the secrets, of other programs and the operating system.

If your computer has a vulnerable processor and runs an unpatched operating system, it is not safe to work with sensitive information without the chance of leaking the information. This applies both to personal computers as well as cloud infrastructure. Luckily, there are software patches against Meltdown.

Spectre

Spectre breaks the isolation between different applications. It allows an attacker to trick error-free programs, which follow best practices, into leaking their secrets. In fact, the safety checks of said best practices actually increase the attack surface and may make applications more susceptible to Spectre

Spectre is harder to exploit than Meltdown, but it is also harder to mitigate. However, it is possible to prevent specific known exploits based on Spectre through software patches.

 

I was definitely planning on patching either way, more just hoping I won't have to upgrade soon since I definitely can't afford to until after I graduate next year.

 

I'm on windows 10. I just did the whole check for updates thing and it installed but it's not the KB4056892 update. I'm assuming it hasn't been pushed through or something.

 

Yeah you might need to manually update with those installers.

 

Okay I thought so. I'm guessing I need the bottom one.

 

A serious design flaw and security vulnerability discovered in Intel CPUs has reportedly already been partially addressed by Apple in the recent macOS 10.13.2 update, which was released to the public on December 6.
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/03/intel-design-flaw-fixed-macos-10-13-2/

which i haven't done yet, so... i guess i better do that.

 

This is prob how some of the crazy black hat stories that I have heard whispers of in the past few weeks have been pulled off... so yeah go update while shit is slow.

 

I feel bad for the people that just built a intel computer in the last month or two. This is seriously the worst time ever to buy a computer.

Ram is overpriced because of price fixing
GPUs are overpriced because of crypto
SSDs are overpriced because of the same issue as ram
Intel CPUs now have this decade old vuln out in the wild.

 

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>windows update stuck at 89%

 

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Reminds me of the 90s

 

Hold my tacos guys I'm rebooting windows for an update.

 

oh joy.. the update failed.

Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2687455) 64-Bit Edition - Error 0x8024002d

time to go debug this