A massive security flaw may have been discovered with Intel processors, according to reports TODAY. The flaw makes passwords and other personal details an easier target for hackers, and is thought to affect ALL Intel processors from the LAST DECADE.
The good news is that there is a fix. But unfortunately the security patch will slow down processing power by as much as 30 per cent, hitting personal computers and cloud services around the world.
“This is the worst bug I’ve seen for a long time,” says Kevin Curran at Ulster University.
The problem centres around a fundamental part of an operating system called a kernel, The Register reported. The kernel is a program that controls most other programs, giving them access to memory whilst protecting sensitive information from your system. The flaw seems to mean that programs can essentially bypass the kernel and do these high-level manipulations themselves.
The result is that any old bit of software could get almost uncensored access to your computer. This could be anything from a JavaScript program running in a web browser to a virus that’s been accidentally downloaded.
“Additionally, if a program is running in the cloud it could get access to anything else running on that server,” says Curran. The vast majority of the world’s cloud computing happens on Intel chips, including data centres run by Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
Slow down Fixing this problem means getting rid of the fast switching that can currently happen between a program and the kernel in favour of a process that’s slower, but more secure. The resulting slowdown seems to range from 5 and 30 per cent depending on the situation.
Though there have been many security bugs in the past, one that requires a fix that results in such a computational constraint is almost unheard of. “Never have I seen a patch that causes the CPU to be slowed down on such a scale,” says Curran.
At the moment, the main details of the flaw are being kept under wraps. But this sort of failure could be “devastating”, says Robert Watson at the University of Cambridge.
“Processors have long been sold based solely on performance considerations, not security,” says Watson. Improvements in processing power or battery life are immediately noticeable, but rarely will people pay for security improvements, let alone trade them for decreases elsewhere.
An Intel spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.
Jace Parker
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Cameron Bennett
DELET
Tyler Gomez
WHAT THE FUCK
Christian Miller
i don't care. AMD makes shit cpus for poorfags, so i will keep buying intel in the future
Jace Robinson
Epyc. Simply Epyc.
William Scott
I got a ryzen 1700 Pretty happy and I don't game
Jack Young
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Christopher Hill
>implying I update my pirated Windows 7 that's been installed on my PC since 2009
Dominic Wood
That "30% slowdown" is when constantly context-switching into privileged mode. Not even a realistic figure
t. not even Intel shill
Alexander Jones
but this is too important to be only for Sup Forums which is rarely visited by those anonymouses who aren't so interested in technology
Hudson Hughes
>But unfortunately the security patch will slow down processing power by as much as 30 per cent El macabro...
Juan Ward
why is the tech industry so JUST these last 8 years? kys
Kayden Gutierrez
same
Dylan Lee
Doesn't matter. Still unecessary off topic. Sup Forums isn't be with flags. At least go on /bant/ instead.
Alexander Brooks
I PLAY GAMES AND I GOT AN OLD INTEL FUCK THEM IT'S ALREADY SLOW ENOUGH
Nathaniel Rivera
>tfw AMD
Lucas Wilson
fuck off and die redditor germscum, you clearly don't even use this board. Blowjob a shotgun maggot.
Daniel Wilson
FUCK YOU AMDFAGS
Brody Cruz
core 2 Intel technology might not even be affected by this
but we dont know for sure yet
Julian Bennett
Kek, calm down sweetie. And I do. That's why I hate the shitposting that has nothing to do with this board. Sup Forums is more than your "native board" and everything has it's place.
Noah Ross
a Sup Forums thread says it goes back to the fucking pentium ii if that's true i'm ending myself
Gavin Thomas
leave, it's obvious you don't actually use Sup Forums, so fuck off with your rule-autism. A board is more than it's topic. From now I'm just going to assume you're a b8ing newfaggot.
Cameron Gutierrez
>a Sup Forums thread says
Isaac Ortiz
just get an AMD
John Reyes
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Christian Nelson
no money for upgrade
Isaac Perry
join the inevitable class-action lawsuit against Intel and rake in those gibs
Brayden Moore
i don't know how to sue
Parker Phillips
can't wait for Intelfags to die
Juan Jackson
No point freaking out now 2bh, this flaw exists for a decade now. But the "fix" should be optional IMO.
Dominic Gonzalez
This won't affect normal users much. Though I do hope that Intel gets fucked in the court.
Juan Torres
>Implying it is not a bug commissionned by the NSA
John Nguyen
30% is a lot
Colton Reed
but it may be only 10% constatny and the 30% performance hit would be in rare cases
>No older systems here to test, but just to get a sense of how much PCID helps the PTI performance hit on post-Westmere (in our experience with UDEREF and using PCID since 2013, it about halved it): 63% hit on the same Skylake i7-6700 w/ the du -s benchmark and nopcid/noinvpcid
Joshua Nguyen
beautiful
Anthony Evans
>It's a fellow Sup Forumsentoomen posts on Sup Forums too
Nice
Lincoln Parker
>Literally just spent a hundred and fifty bucks on a GTX 1050
Nicholas Baker
WEW >the "fix" should be optional CONFIRMED MOSSAD BACKDOOR it's an operating system update so at least in the case of Windows it is optional since you can exclude updates... >JavaScript in web browsers ... but I REALLY wouldn't recommend not getting it
Brayden Hughes
but gtx it not from intel??
Dylan Miller
user....
Xavier Jenkins
A ha ha ha ha ha ha. AMD masterrace here. My first computer I built in 98 used the AMD K6 and I never looked back to Intellishit.
Cooper Moore
I have an intel processor
Easton Nguyen
even with being 30% slower it still is better than AMD shit
Matthew Taylor
>a hardware fault >commissioned by NSA Possible, but unlikely. It's much easier to do software, that way if/when your caught you can just claim ignorance and patch it with little repercussions.
Jose Murphy
el chip maldito...
Andrew Garcia
What meme is your pic refering to?
Nathan Thompson
so does pretty much everybody using a computer
Bentley Campbell
test
Jason Powell
>tfw trusted the Intel jew and defended them for years
Elijah Cooper
WUHUUU!!!!
Range ban lifted.
Does this affect older intel CPU:s? (i5 4xxxK)
Bentley Clark
was meant for
Xavier Morales
FUG!!! "and is thought to affect ALL Intel processors from the LAST DECADE"
Maybe that i5 4somethingK is affected, but at least i don't have to pay nothing for it.
Jacob White
I unironically blame it on diversity quotas.
Bentley Young
>tfw my old i5 2400 has been showing its age for quite some time >and now this FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK IF I CHANGE MY CPU I'M GONNA HAVE TO CHANGE MY MOBO AND MEMORY TOO AND I'VE GOT NO MONEY FOR THAT
Jason Martinez
I just got my brothers old hardware when he upgraded to Ryzen and ofcource it is intel i5 4xxxK +mobo +8g RAM, but it is such a big leap forward from my current hardware.
Camden Williams
This
Asher Green
>tfw R5 1600 user >didn't fall for the 7600k meme
Nathan Kelly
also why are there so many fins on Sup Forums?
Charles Green
It affects any Intel CPU made in the last ~10 years.
Easton Diaz
>nGreddia GPUs heavily rely on syscalls because they don't have their own integrated pipeline to do this, while Radeon has it since GCN 1.1 and up. Enjoy your toaster.
Adam Sanchez
>got a ryzen because the new intel cpu only had 300€ motherboards when I was buying a new pc thank you based jews
Jose Edwards
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Eli Martinez
Yeah, fuck open source...i love proprietary shit now.
Xavier Long
Good to know we can always count on you goy!
Jordan Young
AMD Ryzen cpu:s are fucking awesome and run circles around same priced intel cpu:S
Robert Taylor
>An Intel spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.
The worst part is that Intel won't really be punished in any real way shape or form for their incompetence and their refusal to disclose a security issue they've known about for a long time. It reminds of the Equifax hack a few months ago; their after the storm had subsided, their stock had only fallen like 20%, and is now stable. Meanwhile, they clearly are not going to get in any sort of trouble, nor are the American consumers going to properly compensated other than maybe a few irrelevant class action lawsuits.
It's utterly sickening just how bad the reign of corporatism has gotten in the US and the Western World at large. They literally are untouchable at this point.
Ryder Davis
top kekkonen
Carter Campbell
It's a 22 years old fault that was only discovered last year, so who knows
Ryder Roberts
>newscientist.com >the register dropped
Carter Gutierrez
Oh no, now the hackers will know my Steam password and can play Euro Truck Simulator while I'm not home, how will I ever recover?
Hunter Russell
the "fix" for Intel CPU as OS patches will slow AMD as well. It has been termed as "collateral damage".
Aiden Sullivan
Damn that sucks I'm pretty happy with my 1600x.
Noah Reyes
but what's wrong with newscientist
Jace Edwards
Good thing I'm never going to update Windows 10
Connor Phillips
Too bad i only trust AMD. All those years of blind antisemitism is finally paying off.
Caleb Ramirez
Is there any amd equivalent to 8700k, that doesn't have shitty IPC? No there isn't. Amd sucks
Oliver Roberts
yes, this is the only thing that matters: whichever company has the fastest possible CPU with very high price
lets not even think about middle priced models and their performances
William Price
I don't care about their cheap shitty cpus. I only buy the best ones, which makes amd irrelevant to me
Colton Ross
>I don't have a use case so no one has a use case
Benjamin Gray
but you pay 2x more for 10% increase in power
Xavier Lopez
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Adrian White
So if this flaw is a decade old, how come nobody found it until now? Was there no hackers motivated enough to crack the processor?
Jonathan Garcia
You will never now. Not that they will tell you.
Julian Rivera
I'm in the top 1% so i don't care
Josiah Campbell
Intel chips are proprietary, no one except intel themselves can find the flaws
Dylan Taylor
>tfw I just bought an i5.
That's it, I'm done with all fucking kike technology with their planned lifespans. I'm going to switch to ARM and linux.
Cooper Jenkins
>not using amd and linux Are you even Finnish?
Robert Myers
Why can't europe into computers? We can into space, trains, aircrafts, science, but not hardware?
Aaron Martin
do not delete your profile just in case you wanna reactivate it; all of your pics will be gone once you close your account.
