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Exploit name Public vulnerability name Windows changes Firmware changes Ref(s). Spectre: 2017-5753: Variant 1: Bounds Check Bypass (BCB) Recompiling with a new compiler Hardened browser to prevent exploit from JavaScript: No [7] Spectre: 2017-5715: Variant 2: Branch Target Injection (BTI) New CPU instructions eliminating branch speculation: Yes ...
Configuration Manager Current Branch 1606, released July 22, 2016. New features include support for managing new Windows 10 features like Windows Information Protection and Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, improved integration with the Windows Store for Business supporting online and offline-licensed apps, and more. [13]
Address space layout randomization (ASLR) is a computer security technique involved in preventing exploitation of memory corruption vulnerabilities. [1] In order to prevent an attacker from reliably redirecting code execution to, for example, a particular exploited function in memory, ASLR randomly arranges the address space positions of key data areas of a process, including the base of the ...
The users of the version control system can branch any branch. Branches are also known as trees, streams or codelines. The originating branch is sometimes called the parent branch, the upstream branch (or simply upstream, especially if the branches are maintained by different organizations or individuals), or the backing stream.
The software development platform GitHub has been the target of censorship from governments using methods ranging from local Internet service provider blocks, intermediary blocking using methods such as DNS hijacking and man-in-the-middle attacks, and denial-of-service attacks on its servers from countries including China, India, Iraq, Russia, and Turkey.
The command to create a local repo, git init, creates a branch named master. [61] [111] Often it is used as the integration branch for merging changes into. [112] Since the default upstream remote is named origin, [113] the default remote branch is origin/master. Some tools such as GitHub and GitLab create a default branch named main instead.
The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores low-level settings for the Microsoft Windows operating system and for applications that opt to use the registry. . The kernel, device drivers, services, Security Accounts Manager, and user interfaces can all use the regis
In March 2022, a new variant of the Spectre vulnerability called Branch History Injection was disclosed. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] It affects certain ARM64 CPUs [ 47 ] and the following Intel CPU families: Cascade Lake , Ice Lake , Tiger Lake and Alder Lake .