Meltdown and Spectre Exploits Affect Billions of Processors, but Fixes are Being put in Place/technologies/embedded/b/blog/posts/meltdown-and-spectre-exploits-affect-billions-of-processors-but-fixes-are-being-put-in-placeMeltdown melts security boundaries enforced by hardware while Spectre breaks the isolation between different applications- giving hackers the ability to steal sensitive data. (Image credit: Pexels ) Researchers have discovered a pair of flaws in...en-USTelligent Community 12RE: Meltdown and Spectre Exploits Affect Billions of Processors, but Fixes are Being put in Placehttps://community.element14.com/technologies/embedded/b/blog/posts/meltdown-and-spectre-exploits-affect-billions-of-processors-but-fixes-are-being-put-in-placeWed, 10 Jan 2018 13:27:02 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:588e1f50-6765-477a-8828-b8baa6df5832johnbeetem0<blockquote class="jive-quote"><p><span>AMD is only affected by Meltdown as their hardware architecture negates Spectre.</span></p></blockquote><p>I&#39;ve read the opposite: AMD is not affected by Meltdown, but is affected by Spectre.&nbsp; Curse you, Ernst Stavro Blofled!</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=4096&AppID=7&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Meltdown and Spectre Exploits Affect Billions of Processors, but Fixes are Being put in Placehttps://community.element14.com/technologies/embedded/b/blog/posts/meltdown-and-spectre-exploits-affect-billions-of-processors-but-fixes-are-being-put-in-placeTue, 09 Jan 2018 22:45:15 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:588e1f50-6765-477a-8828-b8baa6df5832genebren1<p>Yeah!&nbsp; Just what windows users need, another hole in a leaky boat.&nbsp; </p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=4096&AppID=7&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">