Two security holes in a number of Intel chips and ARM make a scene recently. But the biggest problem is not in the home or mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets.
Reasonable indeed if Meltdown and Specters make a scene, because this security gap is present in almost all processors made over 20 years back. The risk is real, with the presence of exploits already in circulation, as well as the Specters, which are difficult to patch.
But the biggest problem of these two security holes are not found on home PC or mobile devices and tablets. Coupled with a lot of vendors who hastily patch up these two gaps on the device he made.
Experts call the biggest problem of Meltdown and Specter is if until the hackers take advantage of the gap to attack cloud services. If that happens, the impact will be very large and wide.
"This security hole allows one user to connect to other users 'data, so many companies avoid other companies' services to process sensitive information," said Mounir Hahad, head of threat research at Juniper Networks.
Meltdown and Specters work by leaking data from one part of the computer to another, making it more dangerous when one device is used by multiple users.
If only used to attack a personal computer, these two loopholes are best suited for stealing personal data, including mastering the computer thoroughly, however much higher dangers can arise if the gap is used to attack servers used by many people in time at the same time. Examples are Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, which allow online companies to deploy software through thousands of servers in data centers spread all over the world.
Fortunately, today various cloud service providers are already menyeriusi these two loopholes. AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure immediately patch the Meltdown gap. While Google representatives claim that their cloud services already protect their servers from both Meltdown and Specter.