Cyber security- what is Meltdown and Spectre ?

“Computer researchers have recently found a dangerous Cyber Security threat: the main chip in most modern computers—the CPU—has a hardware bug. It’s really a design flaw in the hardware that has been there for years. This is a big deal because it affects almost every computer on our network, including your workstation and all our servers.

This hardware bug allows malicious programs to steal data that is being processed in your computer memory. Normally, applications are not able to do that because they are isolated from each other and the operating system. This hardware bug breaks that isolation.

So, if the bad guys are able to get malicious software running on your computer, they can get access to your passwords stored in a password manager or browser, your emails, instant messages and even business-critical documents. Not good.

So, What Are We Doing About This?

We need to update and patch all machines on the network. This is going to take some time, some of the patches are not even available yet. However, this is worth the time and effort- Cyber Security is the biggest danger online in any network or device.

In the meantime, we need you to be extra vigilant, with security top of mind and Think Before You Click. If you’d like to make sure you and your staff are as prepared for Cyber Security threats a possible, be sure to click this link to view our own Cyber Security training programmes at Solutions 4 IT.