• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Mar-01-2018
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Intel quietly releases Spectre fixes for Haswell and Broadwell CPUs

The fixed Spectre fixes are coming fast and furious now. Intel quietly pushed CPU firmware updates out for Haswell (4th-generation) and Broadwell (5th-generation) processors earlier this week, following in the footsteps of recent microcode patches for Skylake (6th-gen), Kaby Lake […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-21-2018
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Intel ships new Spectre patches: Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake now, Sandy Bridge next

Intel said Tuesday afternoon that it’s shipped updated patches to mitigate the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities for Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake Core processors, plus additional Skylake chips. Intel’s patch roadmap also indicates that beta patches for Broadwell, Haswell, and […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-21-2018
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Intel ships new Spectre patches: Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake now, Sandy Bridge next

Intel said Tuesday afternoon that it’s shipped updated patches to mitigate the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities for Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake Core processors, plus additional Skylake chips. Intel’s patch roadmap also indicates that beta patches for Broadwell, Haswell, and […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-20-2018
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Ivacy VPN review: A competent VPN that doesn’t mind cryptocurrencies

Ivacy in brief:
P2P allowed: Yes
Business location: Singapore
Number of servers: 459+*
Number of country locations: 55
Cost: $40 (billed annually)
VPN protocol: OpenVPN-UDP
Data encryption: AES-256-GCM 
Data authentication: MS-Chap v2 and TLS
Handshake Encryption: SHA-II
* Includes virtual server locationsEditors Note: This review was updated on November 29, 2018 […]