Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Spectre and Meltdown

Update all of your devices now

Why?

On January 3rd, security researchers from Google announced two large problems (dubbed Meltdown and Spectre) with Intel chips made in the last 10 years where attackers can steal your passwords as well as other data.  It gets worse.  Malware from ads in your browser (malvertising) can exploit this to steal data from your machine.