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Linux 6.11 Hardening Makes FineIBT Default Configurable At Build Time   Linux Security   2024-07-21
Linux 6.10's Hardening Configuration Now Enables KCFI & Other Features   Linux Kernel   2024-05-22
Rust WQ Abstractions, Rust Toolchain Upgrade & Android Kernel Builds For Linux 6.7   Programming   2023-10-31
OpenBSD 7.4 Released With New Hardware Support, Security Improvements   BSD   2023-10-16
Linux kCFI/FineIBT Weaknesses Addressed By Rewriting Some Assembly In C   Linux Kernel   2023-07-15
Building A Full Linux Debug Kernel Optimized From 53GB To 25GB Heap Use   Linux Kernel   2023-06-27
Intel Sends Out Latest Patches Preparing Linux CET Virtualization   Intel   2023-05-11
Intel Submits Long-Awaited Shadow Stack Support For Linux 6.4   Intel   2023-04-25
NVIDIA 525.105.17 Linux Driver Backports IBT Kernel Compatibility, Other Fixes   NVIDIA   2023-03-30
NVIDIA 530.41.03 Linux Driver Released With IBT Kernel Support, Vulkan Video   NVIDIA   2023-03-23
Intel CET Shadow Stack Support Set To Be Introduced With Linux 6.4   Intel   2023-03-21
NVIDIA 530.30.02 Linux Beta Driver Released   NVIDIA   2023-02-28
Intel SGX Async Exit Notification "AEX Notify" Lands In Linux 6.2   Intel   2022-12-14
Call Depth Tracking Coming To Linux 6.2 To Help Recover Performance On Skylake-Era CPUs   Intel   2022-12-14
The Many New Features On The Horizon For Linux 6.2   Linux Kernel   2022-12-09
AMD EPYC Genoa, Linux 6.1 & Rust Efforts Excited Linux Users In November   Phoronix   2022-12-01
NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Driver Improves Firmware Handling, IBT Support   NVIDIA   2022-11-11
Linux Moving Ahead With Enabling Kernel IBT By Default   Linux Security   2022-11-05
FineIBT Looks Like It Could Be Ready For Linux 6.2   Linux Kernel   2022-11-02
Linux Still Eyes Better Security By Default Enabling Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT)   Linux Security   2022-11-01
Linux May Flip On Indirect Branch Tracking By Default (IBT)   Intel   2022-09-05
Fwupd 1.8.4 Supports More Hardware, Starts Allowing To Make BIOS Changes From Linux   LVFS   2022-08-30
Linux 5.18 Preparing For Release - Especially Heavy With Many Intel & AMD Changes   Linux Kernel   2022-05-20
Experimental "FineIBT" Series Published For Linux - Building Atop Intel CET/IBT   Linux Security   2022-04-20
Intel CET Indirect Branch Tracking Submitted For Linux 5.18   Intel   2022-03-26
Linux 5.18 To Bring New Intel Drivers, Optimization For AMD EPYC, C11 & Much More   Linux Kernel   2022-03-11
Indirect Branch Tracking Ready Ahead Of Linux 5.18   Intel   2022-03-09
Intel IBT Patches For Linux Back On Track   Intel   2022-02-20
Intel's Linux Shadow Stack Patches Should Work Fine With AMD CPUs   AMD   2022-02-05
Intel Revs New Linux Patches Providing For Shadow Stacks For User-Space   Intel   2022-01-31
Intel Posts New Iteration Of Key Locker Support For Linux   Intel   2021-11-24
New Linux Patch Series Provides A Fresh Take On Intel Indirect Branch Tracking   Intel   2021-11-22
Another Round Of Intel CET Patches, Still Working Toward Linux Kernel Integration   Intel   2021-08-21
Intel Tidies Up CET While Waiting For It To Land In The Linux Kernel   Intel   2020-11-17
Intel Confirms CET Security Support For Tiger Lake   Intel   2020-06-15
Intel CET Support Still Getting Squared Away For Linux In 2020   Intel   2020-05-17
Ubuntu 19.10 To Harden Its Compiler With Stack Clash Protection & Intel CET   Ubuntu   2019-06-19
Glibc 2.28 Released With Unicode 11.0 Support, Statx & Intel Improvements   GNU   2018-08-01
Intel CET With Indirect Branch Tracking & Shadow Stack Land In Glibc   GNU   2018-07-17
Binutils 2.31 Offers Faster DLL Linking For Cygwin/Mingw, Freescale S12Z Support   GNU   2018-07-14
Working Intel CET Bits Now Land In GCC8   Intel   2017-10-22
Control-Flow Enforcement Technology Begins To Land In GCC 8   Intel   2017-10-20
Intel Posts Control-Flow Enforcement Support For GCC   Intel   2017-06-21