Thursday, January 25, 2018

Newly discovered flaws leave computers vulnerable to cyber-attacks

In the case of Meltdown, the flaw occurs in a small window, only nanoseconds long, when speculative execution is running and the operating system is left vulnerable. While the computer's processor confirms whether it speculated correctly, hackers are able to access the operating system space to steal ...

from Google Alert - vulnerability http://ift.tt/2rFL01h
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