Characterizing the Variance Envelope: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Spectre Telemetry across Architectures and Workloads

Hardware attacks like Spectre exploit built-in processor vulnerabilities, leaving anomalous footprints in Hardware Performance Counter HPC metrics. While machine learning can detect these footprints in controlled settings, static models fail in the real world when confronted with background syste...

February 12, 2019—KB4486564 (Security-only update)

February 12, 2019—KB4486564 Security-only update Applies To Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Improvements and fixes This security update includes quality improvements. No new operating system features are being introduced in this update. Key changes include: Addresse...