‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’ vulnerabilities to microprocessors
Reports of new security flaws affecting microprocessors called ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’ surfaced this week. Processors in most devices employ a range of techniques to speed up their operation, and the vulnerabilities allow some of these techniques to be abused to obtain information about areas of memory not normally visible to an attacker. As a result, normally difficult actions – such as recovering passwords…
Link: Weekly Threat Report 5th January 2018
Source: NCSC Reports
