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New Intel Chip Vulnerability (ZombieLoad) Speculative Execution and Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities. How to enable full Mac mitigation.

  • May 15, 2019
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I put together a quick article on the latest Speculative Execution and Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities aka ZombieLoad. I included both articles that Apple released today on the subject.

I will show you what you need to do if you want to enable full mitigation (disabling Hyper-Threading). Bad news is this can not be done via MDM, only through the recovery partition.

https://mrmacintosh.com/zombieload-new-intel-chip-vulnerability

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  • May 15, 2019

Thanks for sharing this detailed instruction.

I hope there will be a way to automate this in the future :(


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  • May 15, 2019

  • June 17, 2019

Just a bit curious here....looks like certain Intel chips did not have HT, does anyone know how to report this in the JSS? Extension Attribute? This will greatly help with the mitigation process. Thanks!