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1/4/2018 Newsletters

New Vulnerabilities - Meltdown and Spectre. What You Need to Know

The Digital Edge Security Team is aware of a set of security vulnerabilities—known as Meltdown and Spectre—that affect modern CPUs and virtual memory access. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to obtain access to sensitive information.

We analyzed our clients configurations and our own DE Cloud Infrastructure, and as of now, do not see any active exploitation of this vulnerability. 

There has been much contradictory information. The Digital Edge Security Team explains the vulnerability in simple terms and provides suggestions on how to handle the situation here.