Meltdown and Spectre: All Macs, iPhones and iPads affected

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Meltdown and Spectre: All Macs, iPhones and iPads affected

5 January 2018

Apple has said that all iPhones, iPads and Mac computers are affected by two major flaws in computer chips.

It emerged this week that tech companies have been racing to fix the Meltdown and Spectre bugs, that could allow hackers to steal data.

Billions of PCs, smartphones and tablets around the world are affected - Apple has now confirmed its products are too.

The firm has released some patches to mitigate the Meltdown flaw.

It said there was no evidence that either vulnerability had been exploited yet, but advised downloading software only from trusted sources to avoid "malicious" apps.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42575033

[BigmanPigman]

1. I saw this on the CNN news this week and thought,

"how in the Hell are they going to correct this?". But I believe CNN said it was in chips for ALL devices (not just the Apple products). I guess I wasn't listening too closely.

[Eugene]

2. All devices made since 1995 may be vulnerable. Apple finally admitted theirs are too.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Patches for systems back to El Capitan have been released nt

[BigmanPigman]

4. Can you translate that for me.

I do not speak computer tech so I don't understand this.

[dhill926]

5. back to Mac OS 10.11....

this is for computers, not iPhones or iPads....

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. Go to software update to install software patches

Under the Apple menu at the top left of your screen

[question everything]

7. Since I just downlaoded El Capitan this morning

is it "patched?"

And, the community on Apple was wonderful!

[question everything]

8. "no known exploits impacting customers at this time. "

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394