Once they were on the service, the flaw would allow them to grab information like passwords from other customers.That is a major threat to the way cloud-computing systems operate. But once a security problem becomes public, computer users take a big risk if they do not install a patch to fix the issue. "The researchers who discovered the flaws notified various affected companies. "Whereas Meltdown is an urgent crisis, Spectre affects virtually all fast microprocessors," Kocher said. "The Meltdown flaw was discovered by Jann Horn, a security analyst at a Google-run security research group called Google Project Zero, last June.

Source: Economic Times January 04, 2018 05:03 UTC