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Greetings to all,

Further to patching the Meltdown vulnerability back In January of this year, It somewhat defeated It's purpose by creating a bigger Issue for Windows 7 users.

"[The patch] stopped Meltdown but opened up a vulnerability way worse...It allowed any process to read the complete memory contents at gigabytes per second, oh -- it was possible to write to arbitrary memory as well"

"No fancy exploits were needed. Windows 7 already did the hard work of mapping in the required memory into every running process. Exploitation was just a matter of read and write to already mapped in-process virtual memory. No fancy APIs or syscalls required -- just standard read and write,"

Impressive. @phyrrus9, you'll like this.

Source.

I saw this a few days ago and complained about it in the Discord. At this point, Intel just needs to throw in the towel, 2018 has been a terrible year for them.

And at the time of the first (Meltdown) vulnerability, the year had just started.

The third month Is coming to a close, and subsequent vulnerabilities from Meltdown have emerged. What will the next 9 months hold for Intel? It remains to be seen.