Showing posts with label Spectre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spectre. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Meltdown proves that the industry needs a better answer for protecting cloud content

Security researchers announced this week that they had discovered a significant vulnerability in almost every computer on the planet. This vulnerability – actually two related ones called Meltdown and Spectre – allow a malicious application running on a computer to peek into the memory of another application on the same computer and suck out its contents. This is most devastating in public cloud environments where applications from different customers often end up running on the same physical computer.