Irwin Electronics Weekly Digest Is Spectre Giving You a Meltdown? For personal PC users, it’s mostly media hype by David Irwin on January 15 If you’re an Enterprise server administrator, I feel for you! I used to be responsible for over three thousand servers at the bank. And the problem only gets worse when management doesn’t understand tech. They buy into the media hype and demand everything be patched... yesterday! For the average personal computer user, it’s mostly hype. It’s a big story because it’s hardware related and affects nearly every processor in use today. Being a hardware issue it doesn’t matter if you use Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android. Virtually every computer is affected! Now that’s scary, and the media is on it like white on rice. Now for a little truth. For one, it is very difficult to exploit. The software would have to be installed on your device. Your antivirus should detect and thwart any attempts to exploit the vulnerability. Another me...
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