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Generally speaking we do Apple news here with an emphasis on business and concepts that seem fairly easy to

understand. I'm having trouble getting my head around Meltdown and Specter, which

Business Insider described as two methods of exploiting a security vulnerability found

an Intel, AMD, and Arm Processors, which, between them, threaten almost all PCs, laptops, tablets, and smartphones, regardless of manufacturer or operating system.

According to the site, Meltdownatac.com, Meltdown breaks the most fundamental isolation between user applications

and the operating system. This attack allows a program to access the memory and thus also

the secrets of other programs and the operating system.

Specter breaks the isolation between different applications.

It allows an attacker to trick error-free programs which follow best practices into leaking their secrets.

In fact, the safety checks of said best practices actually increase the attack surface and may make applications more susceptible to

Specter.

Bad news, seriously every modern processor made today is susceptible to a specter exploit. Good news, specter

exploits are particularly hard to execute. More good news. Fixes for

exploitation of meltdown vulnerabilities are already rolling out for Linux,

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