In Intel, AMD and ARM discovered security issues

2018-01-05 12:26

In Intel, AMD and ARM discovered security issues
In Intel Corp, Advanced Micro Devices Inc and ARM Holdings discovered a serious security vulnerability.

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As noted, on Wednesday, the researchers uncovered a number of security flaws, which, according to them, allowed hackers to steal sensitive information from almost all modern computing devices containing chips from Intel Corp, Advanced Micro Devices Inc and ARM Holdings.

The researchers referred to two types of attacks, which was given the working names of Meltdown and the Spectre.

Meltdown allows you to break the barrier between applications and the internal memory of the operating system that opens access to data stored in the memory of the OS.

Spectre breaks the barrier between applications: conventionally, one service may get into the memory of another.

Intel and ARM insist on the fact that the problem is not a lack of design, but for its solution is that users downloaded the patch and updated your operating system.

One of the researchers Gretskogo technical University Daniel Gryus called Meltdown “is probably one of the worst errors of the processor, that ever was discovered.

Gryus noted that the Meltdown will be a major issue in the short term, but can be stopped by software corrections.

“Specter is a more complex error, which is used in almost all computing devices. It is more difficult for hackers more become a big problem in the long term,” he said.