05-01-2018 21:52 via infosecurity-magazine.com

Apple Confirms Devices Affected by Meltdown, Spectre

Apple Confirms Devices Affected by Meltdown, SpectreApple has confirmed that nearly all of its devices have been affected by the two major chip-level security flaws found earlier this week, Meltdown and Spectre.Separately, US-CERT has changed its guidance for protection from replacing processor boards to simply applying patches.And, Shadow Brokers is purportedly offering the first exploits for the issues, which, as we previously reported, can be described as “side channel” attacks wh
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