The Spectre Bug aka Spectre Attack – What You Need To Know

Stronghold Cyber Security ^ | 01/04/18 | Jason McNew

[Gennie]

Like the Meltdown bug, the Spectre bug is a hardware bug in the form of a CPU design flaw. Unlike the Meltdown bug which only affects Intel processors, the Spectre bug impacts Intel, AMD, and some ARM (used in many smart phones and other mobile devices) processors. These three are by far the most common CPUs on the planet, running literally billions of devices. In a Spectre attack, the CPU is tricked into executing instructions that it normally would not, causing leaks in the victims memory address space.

[null and void]

causing leaks in the victims memory address space.

[robroys woman]

I love this line from the article:
“ Just like when Rey handed Luke the light saber, we are stuck waiting for answers on this one.”

Looks like for us AMD users, it’s not really all that much of a threat though...yet.

[Steamburg]

A chicken little story.
The best pull quote: “A Spectre attack can only be executed in a lab by a gaggle of PhDs. Trying to pull this attack off would be like trying to stack Jenga blocks to a height of 25 feet on a crooked table as a drinking game. Possible, but very difficult. Even if an attacker could execute this attack, it is highly unlikely they would get anything of value out of it.”

More waste of digital space.

[henkster]

Tried that stuff on my gutters; it didn’t work. Maybe it does better on computers.

[deoetdoctrinae]

PING

[Red Badger]

Ping!...................

[Red Badger]

You’re supposed to clean the leaves out first.......................

[SecondAmendment]

Methinks the “Spectre” bug is a minor flaw was trumped up by the researchers to satisfy some sort of backroom deal with Intel, since the “Meltdown” flaw is very bad news ...

[henkster]

Now you tell me. I’m sure it didn’t say that on the can. Not that I read it.

[Sergio]

bkmk

[dayglored]

Spectre ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to deoetdoctrinae for the ping!

[hsmomx3]

FireFox just updated on my system.

Not sure if there is a noticeable difference as far as slowness, etc.

[hsmomx3]

“trumped up....” LOL!!

[Bob434]

we did too- peeled right off- terrible stuff-

[Swordmaker]

Another article on the processor vulnerabilities, this one concentrating on the Spectre attack on Intel, AMD, and ARM processor. Apple plans mitigations "in the coming days" for Safari, to defend against Spectre, and says it's already released Spectre mitigations in iOS 11.2 and tvOS 11.2, and in macOS 10.13.2 High Sierra to help defend against Meltdown. The iOS attack for Spectre further requires physical access of the target device, the device user's passcode, and a malware infected app with an Apple Certificate to modify the device's Firmware existing ON Apple's App Store, to install the malware. — PING!

The Spectre Malware Threat
Ping!

The latest Apple/Mac/iOS Pings can be found by searching Keyword "ApplePingList" on FreeRepublic's Search.

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me

[Swordmaker]

“A Spectre attack can only be executed in a lab by a gaggle of PhDs. Trying to pull this attack off would be like trying to stack Jenga blocks to a height of 25 feet on a crooked table as a drinking game. Possible, but very difficult. Even if an attacker could execute this attack, it is highly unlikely they would get anything of value out of it.”

LOVE IT!

[Swordmaker]

Ping!...................

Thanks. . .

[Mark17]

Thanks again SM. 👍

[big'ol_freeper]

Hmm...time to call in Bond. James Bond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=U5M0uKlP9qw

Shaken, not stirred