Episode 78: Meltdown and Spectre with Joe Unsworth of Gartner and will GDPR spark a Data War in 2018?

The Security Ledger piece summarizes the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities—flaws in speculative execution that impact Intel, AMD, ARM and other processor families and can allow attackers to read protected system memory. It includes expert analysis of the broad reach and potential impact across PCs, servers and mobile devices, and also discusses related topics including data-protection predictions for 2018 and Experian’s data breach forecast in the context of GDPR.