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As the technology industry races to protect itself against major chip vulnerabilities disclosed yesterday, the cloud sector is no different. All Mac systems and iOS devices are affected, but there are no known exploits impacting customers at this time. This adds to the already-massive set of devices and situations in which either Meltdown or Spectre could have effects on computer users.
The processors often handle data, like a password or encryption key, that is supposed to be kept from other apps.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has advised companies to patch their systems to prevent the Meltdown and Spectre bugs from being exploited, despite any potential performance loss. "Google Cloud is architected in a manner that enables us to update the environment while providing operational continuity for our customers".
Google: "On most of our workloads, including our cloud infrastructure, we see negligible impact on performance".
Analysis of these techniques revealed that while they are extremely hard to exploit, even by an app running locally on a Mac or iOS device, they can be potentially exploited in JavaScript running in a web browser.
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"AWS is aware of the issue described in CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, and CVE-2017-5754", a spokesperson told Silicon.
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) released guidance Thursday warning of security vulnerabilities that could impact a computer's central processing unit (CPU). For instance, AWS said in its statement that the flaw has existed for over 20 years, and that prior to Wednesday, only a very small percentage of Amazon EC2 instances remained unprotected. "Microsoft has not received any information to indicate that these vulnerabilities have been used to attack customers at this time".
Apple and AMD did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Microsoft has also released updates for Windows 10, 8.1 and 7 operating systems to address the security vulnerabilities.
Google says Chrome users should turn on a feature called "site isolation" that limits the ability of a rogue Javascript program to get access to sensitive data. Bypassing pre-fetch and going out to the disk to retrieve data avoids that vulnerability, but that extra work will impact performance. Indeed, it would hardly be hyperbole to suggest it is unprecedented.
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