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Intel Serves Up An Extra Special Promotion As Part Of Their Holiday Bundle

Posted in Commentary with tags on December 12, 2025 by itnerd

This year, Intel’s Holiday Bundle promotion gives anyone who purchases a qualifying Intel-powered gaming laptop a complimentary AAA game title from 2025. Recipients get to pick one of four major titles that have each made big waves this year: the adrenaline-charged Battlefield™ 6, the zombie-packed thrill ride Dying Light: The Beast, the sweeping adventure Assassin’s Creed® Shadows, or the iconic strategy sequel Sid Meier’s Civilization® VII. 

With the gift of Intel’s Holiday Gaming bundle, Canadians can unwrap a powerful new laptop built for gaming and creativity alongside a blockbuster game that keeps the fun going long after the holidays. 

 You can explore the full promotion here. And if you want to see what Intel has on offer, have a look here.

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From the First Laptop to High-End AI PCs, Intel’s 2025 Gifting Guide Has Something for Everyone

Posted in Commentary with tags on December 3, 2025 by itnerd

Holiday shopping is officially underway, and gifting a laptop is more than just a device – it’s giving someone the tools to work, learn, create, and play. To make things easier for shoppers this season, Intel has put together a guide to the best laptops available in Canada right now, organized by everyday needs like studying, multitasking, creative projects, and gaming. 

These devices span a wide range of features and price points, but they all have one thing in common: they’re powered by Intel processors, delivering dependable performance, smooth multitasking, and the power to keep up with whatever the new year brings. 

Whether someone on your list needs a reliable first laptop, something portable for hybrid work, or a system that can handle gaming and creative workloads, the picks below are selected for their real-world usefulness and long-lasting value. And as a bonus, select Intel-powered gaming laptops come with a free AAA title this season – a great surprise for anyone unwrapping a new system. 

BEST (FIRST) LAPTOP FOR SCHOOL AND STUDYING 

HP 15.6″ Laptop with Intel N100 
Perfect as a first laptop, this HP 15.6″ model handles schoolwork, research, video calls, and everyday streaming with ease. It boots up quickly, features an eye-friendly anti-glare screen, and even includes a full year of Microsoft 365 – everything a student needs right out of the box. 

Regular price: $399.99 | Retailer: Best Buy 

BEST LAPTOP FOR EVERYDAY TASKS 

Acer Chromebook Plus 16″ with Intel Core i3 
Fast, maintenance-free, and perfect for hybrid workers, parents, or anyone who wants something that “just works” without fuss, featuring a large display, quick performance, and built-in AI features. 

Regular price: $599.99 | Retailer: Best Buy

BEST LAPTOPS FOR GAMING 

MSI THIN 15.6″ Gaming Laptop with Intel Core 5-210H  
A great intro gaming system, offering smooth performance for popular titles, lightweight, and 1TB of storage for growing libraries. 

Regular price: $1,299.99 | Retailer: Staples 

ASUS TUF Gaming F16 (2025) with Intel Core 5-210H  
Fast, durable, tournament-friendly, and designed for players who want to climb competitive rankings, not just jump into casual play. 

Regular price: $1,599.99 | Retailer: Amazon Canada 

Acer Nitro V 15 with Intel Core i7-13620H  
A great hybrid machine for gaming and content creation with enough power to edit videos, design graphics, or record gameplay. 

Regular price: $1,599.99 | Retailer: Memory Express 

BEST LAPTOP FOR CREATIVE PROJECTS 

HP Omnibook 5 Flip 14″ Laptop with Intel Core 5-120U 
A flexible, portable 2-in-1 great for digital art, editing, note-taking, and expressing big ideas. Its touchscreen flips, folds, and lays flat, while its Intel Iris Xe graphics support creative work. 

Regular price: $1,199.99 | Retailer: Staples 

BEST LAPTOP FOR MULTI-TASKING AND HYBRID WORK 

Lenovo Slim 7i Copilot+ PC with Intel Core Ultra 7  
An ultra-light AI PC for serious multitaskers, featuring a gorgeous OLED touchscreen, 32GB RAM, Wi-Fi 7, and premium performance for daily productivity. 

Regular price: $1,699.99 | Retailer: Best Buy 

BEST LAPTOP FOR TRAVEL AND PORTABILITY 

ASUS Zenbook S 14 with Intel Core Ultra 7  
A luxury pick: thin, stylish, and powerful, with a vivid touchscreen and long battery life, making it ideal for someone who cares as much about design as performance. 

Regular price: $2,199.99 | Retailer: Best Buy 

BEST LAPTOP FOR POWER USERS 

Acer Predator Helios Neo with Intel Core Ultra 9  
A top-tier AI PC for heavy gaming, editing, and multitasking – great for someone who wants their holiday gift to last years, not months. 

Regular price: $2,199.99 | Retailer: Canada Computers 

Holiday Bonus: Get a Free Game with Select Intel Gaming Laptops 

Holiday gamers get an extra treat this year. With the purchase of a qualifying Intel® Core™ Ultra H or HX gaming laptop, shoppers can redeem one of four blockbuster PC games at no additional cost – a perfect add-on for anyone unwrapping a new rig. The lineup includes Battlefield™ 6, Assassin’s Creed® Shadows, Sid Meier’s Civilization VII, and Dying Light: The Beast, letting players choose the adventure that fits their style. It’s an easy way to add even more value (and immediate fun) to any gaming gift this season. 

Unwrap your bonus game here: Intel | Software Advantage Program 

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Early Black Friday Tech Deals Already Live – Powered by Intel

Posted in Commentary with tags on November 17, 2025 by itnerd

Black Friday is already heating up in Canada, and several major retailers – including Best Buy, Staples, Memory Express, and Canada Computers – have gone early with discounts of up to $500 on Intel-powered laptops across budget, gaming, and premium categories. These limited-time offers are live now through end of day November 20, making them strong candidates for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Top Live Black Friday Deals – Powered by Intel

Under $1,299: Budget + Entry Gaming Deals Now Live 

MSI THIN 15.6″ Gaming Laptop — Intel Core 5-210H 

  • Black Friday Price: $899 (save $400) — Staples 
    A rare sub-$900 RTX gaming laptop with a 144Hz display and 1TB SSD. Strong pick for “best affordable gaming laptops” and entry-level esports coverage. 
  • Sales link: Staples 

Acer Nitro V 15 — Intel Core i7-13620H 

  • Black Friday Price: $1,299 (save $300) — Memory Express 
    Great value for RTX 4060 performance. Ideal for guides featuring “best gaming laptops under $1,500.” 
  • Sales link: Memory Express 

Lenovo Slim 7i Copilot+ — Intel Core Ultra 7 

  • Black Friday Price: $1,399 (save $300) — Best Buy 
    OLED touchscreen, Wi-Fi 7, AI-powered features — a standout for creator-friendly and productivity-focused gift guides. 
  • Sales link: Best Buy Canada 

Mid- to High-End Picks: $1,799–$1,999 

ASUS Zenbook S 14 — Intel Core Ultra 7 

  • Black Friday Price: $1,799 (save $400) — Best Buy 
    A premium ultraportable perfect for lifestyle, travel, or business-tech roundups. 
  • Sales link: Best Buy Canada 

Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 — Intel Core Ultra 9 

  • Black Friday Price: $1,699 (save $500) — Canada Computers 
    Major discount on a powerhouse gaming system with an Ultra 9 processor and RTX 5060. Great inclusion for “best midrange gaming laptops.” 
  • Sales link: Canada Computers 

Lenovo Legion Pro 5i 16″ OLED — Intel Ultra 9-275HX 

  • Black Friday Price: $1,999 (save $400) — Canada Computers 
    OLED gaming display + high-end performance make this ideal for creator/gamer crossover guides. 
  • Sales link: Canada Computers  

Premium Tier: $2,299+ 

Lenovo Legion Pro 5i — Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX + RTX 5070 

  • Black Friday Price: $2,299.99 (save $300) — Memory Express 
    High-end OLED gaming paired with AI-accelerated performance — strong pick for “premium gaming laptop” lists. 
  • Sales link: Memory Express 

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Acronis and Intel Partner to Deliver Efficient, AI-Driven Threat Detection for Endpoint Devices

Posted in Commentary with tags , on August 27, 2025 by itnerd

 Acronis and Intel, today announced Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud’s availability with AI PCs powered by Intel Core Ultra processors, a new collaboration that brings advanced and automated threat detection and remediation to endpoint devices without compromising performance. By integrating Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Intel technology, managed service providers (MSPs), managed security service providers (MSSPs), and enterprise customers experience faster, more efficient cybersecurity, ideal for today’s resource-constrained users.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud uses AI to detect and remediate threats in real-time at the endpoint, analyzing behavioral patterns to uncover advanced attacks, including ransomware, zero-day exploits, and fileless malware that traditional tools might miss. On Intel® Core™ Ultra-powered devices, the solution becomes even more efficient by leveraging OpenVINO™ to offload heavy AI tasks such as behavioral heuristics and anomaly scoring to the processor’s neural processing unit (NPU). Offloading AI-driven behavioral detection from the CPU to the NPU within Intel Core Ultra processors reduces CPU load by up to 92%, based on internal performance testing. This optimizes performance, extends battery life, and keeps systems running smoothly.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, a SaaS-based, multi-tenant platform, delivers award-winning protection from cyberthreats, including next-generation anti-malware, email security, data loss prevention (DLP), and endpoint and extended detection and response (EDR /XDR). Security professionals who use Acronis spend less time juggling tools thanks to its natively integrated solution that integrates cybersecurity, endpoint and posture management, data protection, automated backups, and disaster recovery. Acronis also proudly aligns with NIST cybersecurity functions, helping users identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover more effectively.

Traditional anti-malware software often struggles to detect modern threats and can drain system resources, leading to slowdowns, increased support tickets, and lost productivity. Fragmented security solutions further strain overburdened IT teams while increasing operational complexity. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud solves this with natively integrated cyber protection that minimizes impact on system performance. And with Intel technology, it runs even more efficiently.

To learn more about AI PCs powered by Intel and Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, visit: https://solutions.acronis.com/en-us/integrations/ai-pcs-powered-by-intel-and-acronis-cyber-protect-cloud/

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Thunderbolt 5 Is Available… But The Devil Is In The Details

Posted in Commentary with tags , on November 10, 2024 by itnerd

Apple has recently released a bunch of new computers. And some of them come with Thunderbolt 5 which Apple promised “up to 120 Gbps” of speed among other things. But I’m here to say that it’s not that simple. Let me explain why by going back to what Thunderbolt 4 does.

Thunderbolt 4 ports and cables are capable of transmitting power, data and video signals. In terms of video, it will handle a single 8K, 6K or 5K external display. Alternatively it can support dual external 4K displays at up to 60Hz. In terms of speed, it will do up to 40 Gbps. And in terms of power, it will do anywhere between 100W and 140W depending on the implementation. Here’s what Thunderbolt brings to the table according to Intel:

  • Thunderbolt 5 is promising speeds of up to 120 Gbps.
  • Thunderbolt 5 can support up to three 4K displays running at up to 144Hz, or you can do two 6K or 8K displays. It can also handle a single external display as fast as 540Hz.
  • Thunderbolt 5 can support from 140W to 240W of power

But let’s get to the elephant in the room. Which is the 120 Gbps speeds that Apple promised. If you dig into the details, Thunderbolt 5 has double the bandwidth of Thunderbolt 4. So that’s 80 Gbps not 120 Gbps. So how does Apple advertise speeds of 120 Gbps? Well, Thunderbolt 5 has the ability to sacrifice receive speeds to get to 120 Gbps on the transmit side of the fence. So the only scenario where that would make sense is on the graphics side of the fence. Specifically for high resolution and high refresh rate monitors. You won’t see that shuffling files from an external hard disk for example.

As an aside, if you also have concluded that Apple will likely come out with a new version of their Pro Display XDR or Studio Display that supports their Pro Motion variable refresh rate tech because Thunderbolt 5 exists, you get a gold star. Because with Thunderbolt 4, it wasn’t technically possible for Apple to have a 5K or 6K display with anything more than 60 Hz. But with Thunderbolt 5, it is technically possible.

One other thing to consider is that you need to have Thunderbolt 5 compatible devices to get these speeds. Right now there’s not a whole lot of them out there. But I am sure that they will start to appear over the next year. That makes having Thunderbolt 5 a “sometime later” thing for most people. But when it does become a practical for most people, it will be a game changer.

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Whose Chips Are Worse? Intel Or AMD?

Posted in Commentary with tags , on August 11, 2024 by itnerd

This week has had a lot of bad news for Intel and AMD. In both cases, they have bad news about the quality of the chips that they make. Let’s start with AMD and their “Sinkclose” vulnerability:

The Sinkclose vulnerability allows hackers to execute code within the System Management Mode (SMM) of AMD processors, a highly privileged area typically reserved for critical firmware operations. To exploit this flaw, attackers must first gain access to a system’s kernel, which isn’t easy, but it is possible. However, the system must already have been compromised by some other attack. 

Once this access is secured, the Sinkclose vulnerability allows the perpetrators to install bootkit malware that evades detection by standard antivirus tools, remaining nearly invisible within the system and can persist even after the operating system is reinstalled.  

The vulnerability leverages an ambiguous feature in AMD chips known as TClose, which is meant to maintain compatibility with older devices. By manipulating this feature, the researchers were able to redirect the processor to execute their own code at the SMM level. This method is complex but provides attackers with deep and persistent control over the system. 

This is pretty bad. But to be clear, a threat actor needs to already have access to your system to pull off this attacks. But AMD has acknowledged this and has said that they will push out fixes for these soon, if they’re not already out.

Now let’s go over to Intel who has some serious stability issues with their processors:

Alderon Games revealed that it had observed a nearly 100% failure rate of Raptor Lake processors in its own testing. Telemetry from end customers reports thousands of Raptor Lake CPUs crashing in customers’ gaming PCs. Alderon Game’s own development systems utilizing Raptor Lake CPUs also suffer from frequent instability, leading to SSD and memory corruption. On top of this, the studio’s dedicated game servers leveraging Raptor Lake parts experience “constant crashes” to the point where they are taking entire servers down. 

The studio’s benchmarking tools also show failures with Raptor Lake parts, specifically decompression and memory tests unrelated to its Path of Titans game, which the company is developing.

The worst part is that Alderon Gamers has observed CPU deterioration over time, specifically over three to four months. Initially, the chips will work fine but eventually start failing. Microcode, BIOS, and firmware updates have failed to resolve these stability problems for the game studio.

So, unlike AMD who can push out fixes that will address their issues, Intel’s chips will eventually fail. That’s in my mind makes Intel’s issues worse than AMD. And after a lot of inaction from Intel, the company is finally admitting to the issue, which dates back to 2022, and is doing something about it:

Intel has announced that it has found the root cause of the crashing issues plaguing its CPUs. The company will issue a microcode update to address the issues by mid-August, ostensibly ending the long-running saga that began when the first sporadic reports of CPU crashing errors surfaced in December 2022 and grew to a crescendo by the end of 2023. Intel’s response comes after complaints about the issue, which causes PCs to inexplicably crash/BSOD during gaming and other workloads, reached a fever pitch in recent weeks. However, the microcode update will not repair impacted processors. Intel also confirmed a rumored issue with via oxidation in its 7nm node, but said those issues were corrected in 2023 and didn’t contribute to the failures.

Intel’s advisory says an erroneous CPU microcode is the root cause of the incessant instability issues. The microcode caused the CPU to request elevated voltage levels, resulting in the processor operating outside its safe boundaries. Intel is now validating a microcode patch to correct the issues, with its release slated for mid-August. This patch will be distributed through BIOS updates from motherboard OEMs and via Windows updates, so the timing for end-user availability could vary. 

The bug causes irreversible degradation of the impacted processors. We’re told that the microcode patch will not repair processors already experiencing crashes, but it is expected to prevent issues on processors that aren’t currently impacted by the issue. For now, it is unclear if CPUs exposed to excessive voltage have suffered from invisible degradation or damage that hasn’t resulted in crashes yet but could lead to errors or crashes in the future.

Intel advises all customers having issues to seek help from its customer support. Because the microcode update will not repair impacted processors, the company will continue to replace them. Intel has pledged to grant RMAs to all impacted customers.

Here’s another reason why Intel’s issues are worse than AMD’s issues:

Intel’s problems are beginning to catch up in a major way with the chipmaking behemoth. Just a couple of days after the company revealed via a community board post that the cause of 13th Gen “Raptor Lake” and 14th Gen “Raptor Lake Refresh” desktop processor (CPU) instability had been discovered in more chips than first thought, the Abington Cole + Ellery law firm began a class action lawsuit investigation.

The law firm — based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with a focus on class action litigation — is currently gathering information from users who have experienced issues with the Raptor Lake chips.

And yet another reason:

Intel’s nightmare year continues. Fresh on the heels of laying off 15,000 employees and amidst a class action lawsuit about failing 13th Gen and 14th Gen CPUs, Intel now faces a lawsuit from its shareholders. The lawsuit claims that Intel hid issues that led to the company’s market value dropping $32 billion in one day.

“[The] company’s materially false or misleading statements regarding the business and its manufacturing capabilities inflated its stock price from Jan. 25 to Aug. 1,” claims the suit.

Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger and CFO David Zinsner are the respondents of the lawsuit, which was filed on Wednesday, August 7, 2024 in San Francisco federal court. According to Reuters, Intel shareholders were blindsided by the fact that Intel’s foundry services are “floundering,” in the words of the shareholders.

So while AMD can fix the issues with their products and eventually move on, Intel is facing so much trouble that it could “end” them. Or at the very least hobble them to such a degree that they are never going to be anywhere near the top of the pile when it comes to chipmaking ever again.

Sucks to be Intel.

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Intel Pwned By Hackers…. Forced To Release Financials Early As A Result

Posted in Commentary with tags , on January 22, 2021 by itnerd

Intel said it was the victim of a hacker who stole financially sensitive information from its corporate website on Thursday, prompting the company to release its earnings statement ahead of schedule:

The US computer chipmaker believed an attacker had obtained advanced details about a strong earnings report it was due to publish after the stock market closed, said George Davis, chief financial officer. It published its formal earnings announcement upon discovering the problem, six minutes before the market closed. Intel’s shares rose more than 6 per cent on Thursday, including almost 2 per cent in the final 15 minutes of trading. “An infographic was hacked off of our PR newsroom site,” Mr Davis said. “We put [our earnings] out as soon as we were aware.” He did not provide more details, but said that the leak was the result of an illicit action that had not involved any unintentional disclosure by the company itself. An Intel spokesperson added: “We were notified that our infographic was circulating outside the company. I do not believe it was published. We are continuing to investigate this matter.”

At least Intel was looking for trouble and were able to take quick action upon finding it. But the fact that they got hacked is still problematic. Clearly there will be a deep dive to figure out how to make sure that this never happens again.

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Intel Pwned By Hackers…. At Least 20GB Of Data Swiped Including Data That COULD Lead To Attacks

Posted in Commentary with tags , on August 7, 2020 by itnerd

Intel is the latest company to be pwned by hackers. According to BleepingComputer, A hacker has released 20GB of confidential chip engineering data stolen from Intel. The data that was stolen contains BIOS information and source code of proprietary Intel technology that could be used in building the means to attack computers that use Intel chips. Which would be most of the planet:

According to Tillie Kottmann, a developer and reverse engineer who received the documents from an anonymous hacker, most of the information is supposed to be protected intellectual property. The developer was told that the information was stolen from Intel in a breach this year.

“They were given to me by an Anonymous Source who breached them earlier this Year, more details about this will be published soon,” Kottmann says.

“Most of the things here have NOT been published ANYWHERE before and are classified as confidential, under NDA or Intel Restricted Secret,” the developer added.

The following list was provided as a partial overview of the 20GB file:

  • Intel ME Bringup guides + (flash) tooling + samples for various platforms
  • Kabylake (Purley Platform) BIOS Reference Code and Sample Code + Initialization code (some of it as exported git repos with full history)
  • Intel CEFDK (Consumer Electronics Firmware Development Kit (Bootloader stuff)) SOURCES
  • Silicon / FSP source code packages for various platforms
  • Various Intel Development and Debugging Tools
  • Simics Simulation for Rocket Lake S and potentially other platforms
  • Various roadmaps and other documents
  • Binaries for Camera drivers Intel made for SpaceX
  • Schematics, Docs, Tools + Firmware for the unreleased Tiger Lake platform
  • (very horrible) Kabylake FDK training videos
  • Intel Trace Hub + decoder files for various Intel ME versions
  • Elkhart Lake Silicon Reference and Platform Sample Code
  • Some Verilog stuff for various Xeon Platforms, unsure what it is exactly.
  • Debug BIOS/TXE builds for various Platforms
  • Bootguard SDK (encrypted zip)
  • Intel Snowridge / Snowfish Process Simulator ADK
  • Various schematics
  • Intel Marketing Material Templates (InDesign)

So what does this mean for you? Now that this file is out there, and there is possibly more coming, bad actors will definitely be scraping through this data dump to find any useful vulnerability to attack. That of course is bad.

Intel for its part had this to say:

“We are investigating this situation. The information appears to come from the Intel Resource and Design Center, which hosts information for use by our customers, partners and other external parties who have registered for access. We believe an individual with access downloaded and shared this data” – Intel representative

It still looks really bad on Intel to have this happen. If it’s an internal party, that is easy to deal with. Though I think Intel will still have some questions to answer. But if an external party did this, then Intel will likely find itself having to answer a lot of questions that they likely would not want to answer from a variety of people.

I think it’s safe to say that this is a developing story and we’ll likely be hearing more details about this in the coming days.

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Report Claims That Apple Is About To Announce A Shift Away From Intel Processors At WWDC

Posted in Commentary with tags , on June 9, 2020 by itnerd

Bloomberg is reporting that Apple is going to announce at their World Wide Developers Conference in two weeks that they will be shifting away from using Intel processors in Macs to their own processors. Here’s the details:

The company is holding WWDC the week of June 22. Unveiling the initiative, codenamed Kalamata, at the event would give outside developers time to adjust before new Macs roll out in 2021, the people said. Since the hardware transition is still months away, the timing of the announcement could change, they added, while asking not to be identified discussing private plans.

The new processors will be based on the same technology used in Apple-designed iPhone and iPad chips. However, future Macs will still run the macOS operating system rather than the iOS software on mobile devices from the company. Bloomberg News reported on Apple’s effort to move away from Intel earlier this year, and in 2018. Apple shares were up less than 1% Tuesday while Intel was down less than 1%.

This sounds similar to Apple’s move from IBM’s PowerPC to Intel in the 2000’s. Except that the move to Intel was a bit of a surprise. However this move to Apple’s own processors has been rumored for years. Even Intel expected this move. And that’s because of Intel’s inability to meet it’s own ship targets when it comes to getting their processors out the door. That part is kind of similar to Steve Jobs dumping IBM when they could not get the processors that Apple expected at the speeds that Apple required from IBM on time. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in a couple of weeks.

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BREAKING: New CPU Vulnerability Disclosed. Patches From Microsoft And Apple Inbound

Posted in Commentary with tags , , on May 14, 2019 by itnerd

There’s a new CPU vulnerability that has literally just been disclosed by researchers. It’s called ZombieLoad and it is similar to the Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws that popped up a while ago. Here’s what you need to know:

“ZombieLoad,” as it’s called, is a side-channel attack targeting Intel chips, allowing hackers to effectively exploit design flaws rather than injecting malicious code. Intel said ZombieLoad is made up of four bugs, which the researchers reported to the chip maker just a month ago.

 Almost every computer with an Intel chips dating back to 2011 are affected by the vulnerabilities. AMD and ARM chips are not said to be vulnerable like earlier side-channel attacks.

 ZombieLoad takes its name from a “zombie load,” an amount of data that the processor can’t understand or properly process, forcing the processor to ask for help from the processor’s microcode to prevent a crash. Apps are usually only able to see their own data, but this bug allows that data to bleed across those boundary walls. ZombieLoad will leak any data currently loaded by the processor’s core, the researchers said. Intel said patches to the microcode will help clear the processor’s buffers, preventing data from being read.

Speaking of those patches….:

Intel has released microcode to patch vulnerable processors, including Intel Xeon, Intel Broadwell, Sandy Bridge, Skylake and Haswell chips, Intel Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Whiskey Lake and Cascade Lake chips are affected, and all Atom and Knights processors.

But other tech giants, like consumer PC and device manufacturers, are also issuing patches as a first line of defense against possible attacks.

Computer makers Apple  and Microsoft  and browser makers Google and Mozilla  are releasing patches today.

So as soon as those patches appear for your Windows 10 computer or Mac, I would install them to protect yourself. I’ll update this post as soon as patches pop up.

UPDATE: Apple just put up this page addressing this issue:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210107

In short, Apple released mitigations when they released 10.14.5 as well as other software updates for older OSes that they still support.

UPDATE #2: Google has confirmed it has released patches to mitigate against ZombieLoad. The Chrome team has a technical advisory out that says that users should rely on patches for their computer. “Operating system vendors may release updates to improve isolation, so users should ensure they install any updates and follow any additional guidance from their operating system vendor,” said Google. In other words, make sure your Windows PC or your Mac is patched. Though I will point out that a new version of Chrome just hit my PC and Mac.

UPDATE #3: Microsoft has put up a document on this. And patches have apparently been released via Windows Update. Microsoft also has a page with guidance for how to protect against the new attacks. Meanwhile over at Amazon Web Services, AWS has been updated to prevent attacks.

UPDATE #4: VMware has released software updates for vCenter Server, ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion to mitigate this threat. Details here.

 

 

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