Microsoft Issues Windows Out-of-Band Update That Disables Spectre Mitigations

Microsoft Issues Windows Out-of-Band Update That Disables Spectre Mitigations Published on January 28, 2018 at 10:34PM An anonymous reader quotes BleepingComputer: Microsoft has issued on Saturday an emergency out-of-band Windows update that disables patches for the Spectre Variant 2 bug (CVE-2017-5715). The update — KB4078130 — targets Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8.1, all versions of …

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