Episode 44: RedHat with Brandon Johnson

We pick up where we left off last Friday with our discussion about Spectre & Meltdown. Brandon Johnson from RedHat joins us to talk about this important topic & what he and his team at RedHat are doing to mitigate this disaster. -- The Cliff Notes -- Problem Booting Windows with AMD (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4073707/windows-operating-system-security-update-block-for-some-amd-based-devi?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=nOD%2FrLJHOac&ranSiteID=nOD_rLJHOac-AVnR8kDXzs7ZsWhqsDfF6A&tduid=(f0187439558fdb09f4f2aa182b303234)(256380)(2459594)(nOD_rLJHOac-AVnR8kDXzs7ZsWhqsDfF6A)()) Meltdown and Spectre for Non Technical Users (https://blog.cloudflare.com/meltdown-spectre-non-technical/) Meltdown and Spectre the Battle Continues (http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-linux-vs-meltdown-and-spectre-battle-continues/) Meltdown Attack Simply Explained (https://meltdownattack.com/) What RedHat says You Need to Know (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-are-meltdown-and-spectre-here%E2%80%99s-what-you-need-know) Microsoft Haults Patches (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3246189/security/microsoft-halts-meltdown-patches-windows-amd-pcs-unbootable.html) Microsoft Haults Patches Cont. (https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/09/microsoft-halts-meltdown-spectre-amd-patches/) Meltdown Spectre Bug Collision (https://www.wired.com/story/meltdown-spectre-bug-collision-intel-chip-flaw-discovery/) Kids Router (http://amzn.to/2CZKsIb) RedHat Opens up Resources For You (https://twitter.com/RedHatNews/status/948936504453292032) RedHat Resources (https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3307851) Linus Torvalds Advice to Intel (https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/3/797) Intel CEO Sale of Stock Before Security Bug Reveal (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/intel-ceos-sale-of-stock-just-before-security-bug-reveal-raises-questions/) Intel Bug Performance Hit (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davealtavilla/2018/01/03/intel-processor-bug-leaves-all-current-chips-vulnerable-and-its-fix-saps-performance/#72b7fb7a570a) Intel Bug Fix Kernel Fix (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5aa90a84589282b87666f92b6c3c917c8080a9bf) Canonical Updates for Meltdown and Spectre (https://insights.ubuntu.com/2018/01/04/ubuntu-updates-for-the-meltdown-spectre-vulnerabilities/) +Intel SPI Bug Fix (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1734147) BIOS Fix Download (http://people.canonical.com/~ypwong/lp1734147/linux-image-4.15.0-041500rc6-generic_4.15.0-041500rc6.201712312330+20170103+1_amd64.deb) Backup BIOS Fix Update (http://people.canonical.com/~ypwong/lp1734147/linux-image-4.15.0-041500rc6-generic_4.15.0-041500rc6.201712312330+clear+debug_amd64.deb) See How the Ask Noah Show Got Started (video) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CkKku1JAe8) VoxTeleSys (http://www.voxtelesys.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah asknoah [at] jupiterbroadcasting.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed) Jupiter Broadcasting (https://twitter.com/jbsignal)