Insecure by design – lessons from the Meltdown and Spectre debacle
- Written by Gernot Heiser, Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO's Data61; Scientia Professor and John Lions Chair, UNSW
Spectre and Meltdown affected billions of devices.Shutterstock
The disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre computer vulnerabilities on January 2, 2018 was in many ways unprecedented. It shocked – and scared – even the experts.
The vulnerabilities bypass traditional security measures in the computer and affect billions of devices, from...
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