As I mentioned in our video yesterday, on Wednesday the world learned about some critical local vulnerabilities that affect almost every modern computing platform that uses Intel, AMD, or ARM chips. In today’s video, I share the most important details about these interesting, though dangerous new vulnerabilities. I also discuss why they pose less risk to WatchGuard Firebox customers, despite the fact that we use the affected processors in some of our products. Watch our Daily Byte for a quick summary of these industry-wide vulnerabilities, and make sure to visit the references below for many more technical details. More importantly, if you want to learn more of the technical details about these flaws, I highly recommend Marc Laliberte’s written Secplicity blog post.
Episode Runtime: 9:32
Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NNmhPMMHys
EPISODE REFERENCES:
- Huge flaws affect most modern computing devices – The Hacker News
- Google’s Project Zero’s official disclosure of Meltdown and Spectre – Google Project Zero Blog
- General Google security blog post on the vulnerabilities – Google Blog
- Official Meltdown attack page (including FAQ) – MeltdownAttack.com
- What is speculative execution? – Wikipedia
- Secplicity blog post with more details on Meltdown and Spectre – Secplicity
- WatchGuard’s Knowledge Base article on how these issues affect our product – WatchGuard Support