[Gambas-user] The Impact of Meltdown & Spectre Vulnerabilities

[T Lee Davidson]

"Google’s Project Zero (GPZ) is a think tank of leading edge security researchers who have established a track record of ground
breaking research. Yesterday they announced a set of flaws in CPU architectures that create a two kinds of vulnerabilities.

It is early in the year, but this may be the most important and impactful security vulnerability in 2018. This affects any
software running on Intel chips, no matter the operating system or vendor. This affects every Intel processor since 1995 that
implements out-of-order execution, except Itanium, and the Atom before 2013.

The vulnerabilities were discovered by collaborating researchers at University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland, Graz
University of Technology, Cyberus Technology, Rambus Cryptography Research Division, University of Adelaide and Data61 along
with researchers at GPZ."

[https://www.defiant.com/meltdown-spectre-impact/]


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Lee