The recent exposure of the Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities has drawn widespread public concern as key hardware bugs affecting modern microprocessors, especially Specter, which exposes ARM-based processors to the risk of being attacked, meaning that virtually all intelligence is affected Google has previously pledged to secure the user's personal account in January's Android Security Pack and now Apple also confirmed that the Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities affected all Mac and iOS devices and released fixes.
Currently, Apple has released updates to iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2 and tvOS 11.2 to fix bugs. Apple Watch is not affected by these two vulnerabilities due to running watchOS. Meanwhile, Apple said the updates will not be released this time Reduce device performance, but a patch for Safari will reduce its performance by 2.5% without much impact.
Apple said there have been no reports of losses due to these two vulnerabilities.As exploiting the vulnerabilities requires that malicious applications be loaded on users' Macs or iOS devices, it is advisable to only use trusted sources (such as the App Store) Download software.
