{"id":342458,"date":"2018-01-05T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T10:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/meltdown-spectre-flaws-affect-all-macs-and-ios-devices\/"},"modified":"2018-01-05T11:22:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T10:22:51","slug":"meltdown-spectre-flaws-affect-all-macs-and-ios-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/meltdown-spectre-flaws-affect-all-macs-and-ios-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Meltdown&#8217; &#038; &#8216;Spectre&#8217; flaws affect all Macs and iOS devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 5 Jan, 2018 09:19 <\/time><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 5 Jan, 2018 09:32 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        All Mac systems and iOS devices are vulnerable to the recently discovered security flaws known as Spectre and Meltdown, Apple has confirmed. The tech giant said that mitigations are on the way and some have been already issued.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p>The flaws, which allow hackers unauthorized access to a computer\u2019s memory and sensitive data, were discovered by security researchers at Google Project Zero on Wednesday. Security vulnerabilities called Meltdown and Spectre affect almost all modern CPUs, including those produced by Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and ARM Holdings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/414955-intel-processors-meltdown-spectre\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.01\/thumbnail\/5a4d9e64fc7e932c2b8b4569.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 4kodiak \/ Getty Images\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cAll Mac systems and iOS devices are affected,\u201d<\/em> Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT208394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acknowledged<\/a> in a statement on Thursday, adding that no cases had yet been reported of customers being affected by the security flaws.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has issued updates for the iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2 and tvOS 11.2 systems to protect against Meltdown, which the company believes <em>\u201chas the most potential to be exploited.\u201d<\/em> The tech giant added that Apple Watch is not affected by the flaw, which allows hackers to \u201cmelt\u201d security boundaries between user applications and the operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Patches to protect users from another vulnerability, Spectre, are expected to be released <em>\u201cin coming days.\u201d<\/em> While the flaw\u2019s techniques <em>\u201care extremely difficult to exploit,\u201d<\/em> it can still potentially affect devices in JavaScript running in a web browser, according to Apple. Spectre can be used by hackers to dissolve the barrier that separates different applications and trick otherwise error-free applications into leaking information stored in their memory.<\/p>\n<p>Both security flaws require a malicious app to be loaded on the device operating on Mac systems or iOS, so the general recommendation from Apple is to avoid downloading software from suspicious sources and use only trusted ones such as the App Store.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/415059-meltdown-spectre-macs-ios\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 5 Jan, 2018 09:19 Edited time: 5 Jan, 2018 09:32 All Mac systems and iOS devices are vulnerable to the recently discovered security flaws known as Spectre and Meltdown, Apple has confirmed. The tech giant said that mitigations are on the way and some have been already issued. The flaws, which allow hackers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}