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Datacenters Brace For Spectre And Meltdown Impact

January 18, 2018 Paul Teich 5

The Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution security vulnerabilities fall into the category of “low probability, but very high impact” potential exploits. …

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The Spectre And Meltdown Server Tax Bill

January 8, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

The new year in the IT sector got off to a roaring start with the revelation of the Meltdown and Spectre security threats, the latter of which affects most of the processors used in consumer and commercial computing gear made in the last decade or so. …

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