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Is your Computer, Tablet, Smartphone safe? All you need to know about Meltdown and Spectre.


Security researchers have discovered two critical vulnerabilities, Meltdown and Spectre which are capable of exposing critical information's stored inside your computer processors. Meltdown is limited to affecting Intel processors whereas Spectre can affect Intel, ARM, Qualcomm and AMD processors, that is almost every device that has a processor inside it, it is everywhere. These security bugs can affect nearly every computer, Smartphone, and tables and gain access to your passwords, personal details, locked files, login keys and your encrypted communications. The researchers have provided all the information regarding this security flaws by creating a dedicated website. You can check out the website at the link below.  

http://meltdownattack.com/ and http://spectreattack.com/

Both these bugs directly target the Kernel memory in the processor of the system by breaking a barrier that stops applications from accessing arbitrary locations. So who all are affected?  Chips going back to 2011 and processors as far back as those released in 1995 can be considered as vulnerable. It doesn't matter whether your device runs on Windows, Android, macOS, iOS, Chrome OS, Linux, Android or something else. All software platforms are equally vulnerable. Now the question is how many have been affected till now? Well, we don't yet know the exact number however Microsoft has already issued a security patch for Windows 10 platform. Intel has also released firmware patches update for its processors, and they are also working with the manufacturers who distribute their processors. There are also rumors regarding the partial fix for MAC OS with version 10.13.2. Cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services are also working on it and creating patches to make sure that their systems are all right and not being attached to the vulnerable.

So all are working hard to make sure that their operating system is not being attacked and all the users remain safe. To do it, companies are rolling out updates and security patches. We recommend you to regularly check and update the software's on your computer, tablet, and Smartphone to stay safe from this or any other threat. 

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