Meltdown In Action The following article provides information on the CVE’s and video demonstrations of Meltdown in action. What are CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715? CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715 are the official references to Spectre. CVE is the Standard for Information Security Vulnerability Names maintained by MITRE. What is the CVE-2017-5754? CVE-2017-5754 is the official reference to…
DetailsMeltdown Spectre Patching: (Meltdown Spectre Patching) In recent weeks, there has been a considerable amount of work done with patching Hardware and Operating Systems. A recent survey conducted by Barkley shows that only 4% of Enterprises are fully patched against Spectre and Meltdown. The following Links provide hotfixes/statements from the key/major vendors. It has been…
DetailsLogin VSI announces free Meltdown/Spectre Emergency Edition Login VSI announces free Meltdown/Spectre Edition – Systech IT Solutions and Login VSI (www.loginvsi.com) are offering a FREE, full-production license of their flagship product Login VSI to every organisation using Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, VMware Horizon, or Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS). This is an Emergency Edition and…
DetailsIntroduction to Meltdown/Spectre: (Meltdown Spectre) There has been a lot of talk on the internet recently relating to the IT buzz words “Meltdown” and “Spectre”. These vulnerabilities are used by making CPU executions and determining data from memory based on execution time. The term for this process is called Speculative execution. For a more in-depth…
DetailsMeltdown Spectre Cloud Vendors (Meltdown Spectre Cloud Vendors) The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerability has an significant impact on all Cloud Providers hosting services with multi-tenants. These new vulnerabilities can easily allow access to customer data. The Following links detail official message/information from Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure: Azure AWS Performance impact on AWS: Databricks stated…
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