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The impromptu Slack war room where ‘net companies unite to fight Spectre-Meltdown

The impromptu Slack war room where ‘net companies unite to fight Spectre-Meltdown

January 17, 2018

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Meltdown and Spectre created something of a meltdown in the cloud computing world. And by translation, the flaws found in the processors at the heart of much of the world’s computing infrastructure have had a direct or indirect effect on the interconnected services driving today’s Internet. That is especially true for one variant of the Spectre vulnerability revealed abruptly by Google on January 3, since this particular vuln could allow malware running in one user’s virtual machine or other “sandboxed” environment to read data from another—or, from the host server itself.

In June 2017, Intel learned of these threats from researchers who kept the information under wraps so hardware and operating system vendors could furiously work on fixes.

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