What Is Spectre and Meltdown?

What are Spectre and Meltdown? In the most basic definition, Spectre is a vulnerability allowing for arbitrary locations in the allocated memory of a program to be read. Meltdown is a vulnerability allowing a process to read all memory in a given system.

Should I disable Spectre and Meltdown?

Windows allows you to disable the Meltdown and Spectre protection after installing the patch, making your system vulnerable to these dangerous attacks but eliminating the performance penalty that comes with the fix. WARNING: We strongly recommend against doing this.

What is Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities?

Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors . These hardware vulnerabilities allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. ... Meltdown and Spectre work on personal computers, mobile devices, and in the cloud.