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Meltdown and Spectre patches: Where to start and what to expect

Meltdown and Spectre speculative execution security vulnerabilities affect pretty much every piece of silicon in your enterprise, with the possible exception of very old or low-end devices that offer only in-order execution on chip. Older, unsupported operating systems won’t be getting patches, nor will most mobile devices more than a few years old. Spectre can be exploited remotely via web browser; Meltdown vulnerability poses the greatest threat to cloud infrastructure it makes possible, in theory, escape the virtual machine (VM credentials) and harvest sensitive data.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3246280/meltdown-and-spectre-patches-where-to-start-and-what-to-expect.html

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