Anton Gostev wrote a great post on the Spectre and Meltdown attack in his weekly forums digest. By now, most of you have probably already heard of the biggest disaster in the history of IT – Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities which affect all modern CPUs, from those in desktops and servers to ones found in smartphones. Unfortunately, there’s much confusion about the level of threat we’re dealing with here because some of the impacted vendors need reasons to explain the still-missing security patches. But even those who did release a patch, avoid mentioning that it only partially addresses the threat. So, Anton gave a good explanation of these vulnerabilities on the right level! Below is a functional explanation of two major security flaws revealed by cybersecurity researchers last Wednesday (TheRegister).
