Intel has already been sued for the meltdown and specter vulnerabilities

This year 2018 has not started well for Intel, after learning that many of its processors are affected by the Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities, it was only a matter of time before users filed a lawsuit.

They put three lawsuits against Intel for Meltdown and Specter

This has been what has happened, Intel has already been the subject of three lawsuits in the United States. The situation is especially serious since all the Intel processors of the last 20 years would be affected by these two serious vulnerabilities. Processors from other companies would be affected, too, but not as badly as Intel's.

In this situation , a solution is already being discussed in the form of patches, but these have the problem of reducing the performance of the processor by up to 30%. The latter has been the subject of the three lawsuits that have been filed against Intel in the United States of America, one in the court of the Northern District of California, one in the District of Oregon and one in the District of Southern California. Indiana.

All modern processors are susceptible to Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities

These lawsuits accuse Intel of failing to protect the security of its users, failing to disclose the existence of vulnerabilities in time, and harming the performance of its processors with the corrective measures to apply.

For its part I ntel has already spoken to say that security patches are already being released, and that these do not have a significant impact on the behavior of processors, an opinion very different from that expressed by Google who states that "the performance impact after upgrade is negligible. ”

In this situation , users of x86 processors can only be recommended to apply the corrective measures as soon as they are available, otherwise their security may be very compromised.

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