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Understanding Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerability – Part 2

One of the core security features of the modern operating system is to provide isolation between the different processes running on a system and make sure that one process should not be able to see the data used by another process.

Mridul Verma security, Technology 8 Comments March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 5 Minutes

Understanding Spectre and MeltDown Vulnerabilities – Part 1

In this blog series, we will go through one of the biggest security vulnerabilities of recent times i.e. Spectre and Meltdown. This article is mostly centered around understanding the concepts which will be necessary for then understanding the internals of these two vulnerabilities.

Mridul Verma security, Technology 3 Comments March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 6 Minutes

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