According to this story from Yahoo Finance, there is a high level of confidence that Kaspersky software was used to leak information from the NSA. If you deal with sensitive information, you may wish to think twice about using Kaspersky. Quoted in the article : “I think there’s a very high level of confidence that… Read More: ‘Very high level of confidence’ Kaspersky software responsible for NSA… »
Initially reported in this bug report here, it seems that Apple have embarrassed themselves again with yet another flaw in the High Sierra OS update. Macrumours has more to say in this article here.
https://ds9a.nl/articles/posts/spectre-meltdown/
You can find a nice write-up on the Intel CPU vulnerability here. “Testing also showed that an attack running on one virtual machine was able to access the physical memory of the host machine, and through that, gain read-access to the memory of a different virtual machine on the same host.” It seems that mitigation… Read More: Intel CPU Vulnerability »