Monthly Archives: January 2018

Microsoft has confirmed that users of older versions of Windows should expect to “notice a decrease in system performance” after they apply system patches to protect against the Meltdown and Spectre processor bugs. The bugs, which affect mostly Intel processors but also some ARM and AMD chips, expose the majority of the world’s computers and… Read More »

One of the most basic premises of computer security is isolation: If you run somebody else’s sketchy code as an untrusted process on your machine, you should restrict it to its own tightly sealed playpen. Otherwise, it might peer into other processes, or snoop around the computer as a whole. So when a security flaw in… Read More »