Apple Confirms Meltdown and Spectre Faults Affect All Mac and iOS Devices: Upgrade your software if you want to be safe not sorry. Spectre is the trickier flaw of the two, with The Guardian reporting that "Apple said it was developing protections against the Spectre flaw for its Safari browser for iOS...

Meltdown and Spectre are two different things, but since they were revealed at the same time and both deal with microprocessor architecture at the hardware level, they are being talked about together. The phone you're using right now is almost certainly affected by the Spectre exploit, but nobody has found...

Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware vulnerabilities allow programs to steal data which is Meltdown and Spectre work on personal computers, mobile devices, and in the cloud. Depending on the cloud provider's infrastructure, it might...

Like Meltdown, a Spectre attack abuses speculative execution in order to glean information that should be restricted. Between Meltdown and Spectre, the end result is that prior to patching and mitigation efforts, virtually every PC and every mobile device is thought to be vulnerable to these attacks.

Meltdown and Spectre. Thread starter Mikorist. Start date Jan 5, 2018. No Worries, It's already fixed in 10.13.2. Don't listen to all the hype by the media. Developer Alex Ionescu posted on Twitter that Apple included a fix for the flaw in macOS 10.13.2.

Unlike Meltdown, Spectre is substantially harder to exploit, but affects almost all modern processors produced in the last twenty years. Essentially, Spectre is an attack against modern CPU and operating system design versus a specific security vulnerability. Bounds check bypass (Spectre variant 1).

Collectively, Meltdown and Spectre affect billions of systems around the world - from desktop PCs to smartphones. That means the incentive to use Meltdown or Spectre will at first probably be limited to those prepared to plan and carry out more complex attacks, rather than everyday cyber-criminals.

Meltdown and Spectre are two vulnerabilities that impact almost all computers, tablets and smartphones on the earth. Does it mean you can be hacked? Meltdown and Spectre are similar vulnerabilities that impact the processors of a computer (also called CPU).

Yes, Meltdown and Spectre are two different flaws. Meltdown affects every computer, smartphone and tablet with an Intel processor, and it also Meltdown and Spectre are most often talked about as a duo because they were discovered nearly at the same time. If you want to know more about how...

Spectre and Meltdown individually represent classes of hardware vulnerabilities, each with a number of variants dependent on specific silicon-level functionality. Differences between manufacturers (e.g., Intel vs. AMD) and architectures (e.g., x86-64 vs. Arm) make some processors vulnerable to more...

Both Meltdown and Spectre potentially allow a process to read memory that it is not supposed to be able to. Sometimes, multiple documents from different To exploit Meltdown or Spectre, an attacker needs to measure how long it takes to read a certain value from memory. For this, a reliable and...

Spectre and Meltdown explained. Last June, Google's Project Zero security team discovered some security flaws caused by the way that modern CPUs use out-of-order and speculative execution for better performance. (In addition to Google, other security researchers have independently discovered...

What is Spectre? Spectre uses a processor's speculative execution capability and branch prediction, combined with similar approaches to those in Meltdown (eg, cache attacks like Evict+Time), to read secrets from a process's memory. The attack involves training a branch predictor to take one path...

Meltdown and Spectre are some the biggest issues the industry has ever faced. It's natural for people to be confused and unfortunately typical for publishers to rush for headlines. But we owe it to ourselves and our audiences, be they social or traditional, to take a breath, take our time, and get this stuff right.

31 Comments on Intel Fixes Spectre & Meltdown on New Desktop Processors, Core-X Will Have to Wait. I must have missed it, but why are people so hyped over hardware fixes for Spectre/Meltdown? Well for one none has any idea how "smeltdown" affects real world applications...