Hey, guys, happy year! serious vulnerability affecting the design of processors. It gives you the feeling that the phrase has been halved and that I should put ‘Intel’ or ‘Apple processors’, right? vulnerability affects not only one manufacturer but all market processors… that is, all the devices made over the last decade are affected. This gets better by now. So let’s know who Meltdown and Spectre are.
Technically, the vulnerability that is known by the name ‘Meltdown‘ allow a malicious program (malware, virus, etc.) to access in reading mode a part of the memory where passwords, encryption keys and user information are found of the system due to a feature that allows to share information between the part of the memory that manages the system components and the part of the memory that users manage. If any of you require a more technical explanation I recommend the
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The impact could be very high as, as we have said before, vulnerability affects ALL manufacturers, regardless of the operating system being run, so Microsoft, Apple and Android on computers or phones will have to get an update to solve this vulnerability… which leaves you out of the game again if you have an Android with more than 2 years as we have already commented. In addition, vulnerability allows the cod
igo is run remotely, so any device connected to the Internet at this time has a ‘back door’ that would allow a possible intruder to access that part of the memory.
But as I said Super mouse«Don’t go yet, there’s still more!» Intel said that the patch to solve vulnerability will cause a loss of performance in your processors between 5 and 30%, so our computers are going to work a lot slower (but safe).
The best is about to come.
The final solution is to change the design of the processors which is not going to be overnight and will come to us when we change devices in the future… but What about devices that cannot be updated as we saw with the vulnerability of Wifi WPA2 protocol? How many failures will be in the design of this and other components that allow access to our system? Are we sure these failures are fortuitous or have been introduced at some point by alg?
♪ government with the idea of controlling us ♪ Not to mention the billions of dollars found in cryptomoneda portfolios like the Bitcoin of which we have already spoken and that someone could be dedicated to seeking and attacking with this new vulnerability in order to try to get control of those portfolios.
For the moment All we can do is update our system as soon as the patch is available. (Microsoft and Apple already have it available) and wait to change device to recover that performance we’re going to lose.