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| Thread ID: 145775 | 2018-01-25 21:55:00 | Meltdown and Spectre - article in The Guardian | John H (8) | Press F1 |
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| 1445410 | 2018-01-25 21:55:00 | I'm not sure where anyone is up to regarding the two latest scares, but here is an article in The Guardian that I thought may be of interest: www.theguardian.com Apologies if this is old news... |
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| 1445411 | 2018-01-26 01:29:00 | Graz's University of Technology, Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss, and Michael Schwarz found any hacker who could run code on a target computer could break the isolation around that low-privilege program to access secrets buried in the computer's kernel like private files, passwords, or cryptographic keys . Intel told the researchers they were actually the fourth to report the new class of attack The flaws are fundamental to the architecture of chips . they have existed for more than 20 years . So . . . why must we panic now? |
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| 1445412 | 2018-01-27 05:45:00 | And it was made known to all who needed to know 6 months ago. To give them time to write patches . What happened : nothing. Zilch . So the issue became public knowledge a month or so ago & everyone panicked & wrote buggy poorly tested patches Add to that, it will be years before Intel actually fixes this in their Chips : they admitted this. The hacker still needs to find a way to access your PC , and then this only allows them to read whats in memory (and cache) Disable java, use good adblockers, problem solved . |
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| 1445413 | 2018-01-27 05:50:00 | Personally, I would wait before patching anything. Especially if you have AMD . The fixes are too buggy. Always a risk with bios updates, a real (but small) chance the bios update will leave the machine unusable. www.theregister.co.uk what a mess |
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