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Linus Torvalds Calls Out CTS Labs Report Of AMD CPU Flaws….. So What Is The Truth About This?

March 15, 2018

Earlier this week I told you about a company called CTS Labs who went public with flaws that are allegedly in AMD CPUs after only giving AMD a day to respond. Then they explained why they went that route yesterday, which left me calling “BS” on their explanation. But now things have gotten real with Linus Torvalds basically […]

CTS Labs Explains Why It Gave AMD A Single Day To Respond To Alleged Chip Flaws….. I Don’t Know If I Believe It Though

March 14, 2018

Yesterday I told you about a company called CTS Labs who went public with flaws that are allegedly in AMD CPUs after only giving AMD a day to respond. That bucks the standard of giving a company 90 days to fix an issue before going public. That’s known as Responsible Disclosure. But these guys clearly […]

AMD Comments On Chip Flaws: Nothing To See Here

March 21, 2018

AMD has finally commented on the security flaws in its Epyc, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, and Ryzen Mobile chips, identified in a frankly dodgy manner by CTS Labs a week ago. In a post on the AMD website on Tuesday, Mark Papermaster, senior VP and CTO of AMD, had this to say. Oh as an aside, if the name sound […]

AMD May Have Chip Flaws Of Its Own

March 13, 2018

A couple of months ago we heard about Meltdown and Spectre. That was bad as it’s affected everyone who runs a PC, Mac, or pretty much anything else. But it’s about to get worse as we now have the following new chip flaws to worry about: RyzenFall MasterKey Fallout Chimera The flaws, which are 13 vulnerabilities […]