Apple alone remains silent so far on potential impact to its products and its plans to address new side-channel attack vulnerabilities.
Wondering what to do in the wake of the revelation of newly discovered critical design flaws in most modern microprocessors? Security experts say the best bet is to apply patches for the side-channel attack vulnerabilities, which were disclosed this week.
The vulnerabilities impact a wide number of products from numerous vendors, though not always with the same level of severity. Also impacted are servers, and in many cases the underlying infrastructure hosting cloud services. Vendors and security analysts have urged all organizations and customers to apply patches, OS updates, and other workarounds as soon as they become available, regardless of the severity of impact.
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