Spectre and Meltdown patches causing trouble as realistic attacks get closer

Posted by bob on Jan 17, 2018 3:10 AM CST
Ars Technica; By Peter Bright
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Applications, operating systems, and firmware all need to be updated to defeat Meltdown and protect against Spectre, two attacks that exploit features of high-performance processors to leak information and undermine system security. The computing industry has been scrambling to respond after news of the problem broke early a few days into the new year.

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