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| This week, a major shake-up happened in the world of technology. | |
| Security researchers from Google's Project Zero, Cyberist Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland, and others identified two vulnerabilities that affect nearly all modern computer processors. | |
| The exploits, called Meltdown and Spectre, are not likely to be caught by antivirus software and are nearly impossible to detect. | |
| The Meltdown exploit allows applications to access system memory. | |
| Which means a malicious piece of software could steal data from other applications with ease. | |
| This is especially concerning considering the large number of servers that utilize virtualization technology. | |
| Virtualization allows for multiple virtual servers to be run on a single piece of computer hardware, and in theory, each virtual server should not be able to see what is going on inside the other servers. | |
| The Meltdown exploit could leave customers of services like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google at risk. | |
| Then, there's the Spectre exploit. | |
| It's more difficult to mitigate than Meltdown and could affect a larger number of systems, including mobile phones. | |
| Spectre tricks applications into accessing the memory locations that it is monitoring and, like Meltdown, also allows for data to be captured from the memory. | |
| While there are updates on the way to patch Meltdown, Spectre is more difficult to fix and ultimately will not be eliminated until the next generation of computer processors are released by manufacturers such as Intel, AMD, and ARM. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team has warned, due to the fact that the vulnerability exists in CPU architecture rather than in software, patching may not fully address these vulnerabilities in all cases. | |
| This means that it's not just a fault in the code, but rather a problem with the silicon architecture of the processors. | |
| Apple, whose computers, phones, and tablets could all be affected, claims that the updates they pushed in December mitigates these threats. | |
| Intel, ARM, AMD, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and others have all issued statements regarding these vulnerabilities, and many have already issued patches. | |
| For years, security researchers have raised concerns about Intel's secretive Management Engine, which is a separate microprocessor in a computer system that has access to the memory and other pieces of computer hardware. | |
| Concerns about the Management Engine were heightened in the fall of 2017, when multiple significant security vulnerabilities were discovered. | |
| In 2014, Infowars.com reported that the NSA might have direct access to Intel processors as their CEO refused to answer when asked. | |
| Many have speculated that the management engine may be how the NSA and other government agencies are able to tap into computers. | |
| Intel CEO Brian Krasnick is also under fire after selling hundreds of thousands of shares in the company, bringing his total holdings down to 250,000 shares, the minimum he's required to hold as CEO. This just a few months after the vulnerabilities were discovered and reported to Intel and a few months before they were made public. | |
| Spectre and Meltdown aren't going away anytime soon, and we'll keep hearing about these issues for years to come. | |
| This has been Michael Zimmerman reporting for InfoWars.com. | |
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