Windows Finally Issues A Fix (Sort Of) For Infamous Security Breaches. Here’s How To Protect Your Data

By Farai Mudzingwa

Microsoft has finally released an update for the Spectre and Meltdown flaws that were discovered in January. The vulnerabilities affected millions of Windows PC’s that had Intel and ARM CPU’s which is the bulk of the PC market.

What is this Meltdown and Spectre?

Ok, let me try my best to explain the two vulnerabilities without getting too technical.

Meltdown allows a program to access the memory and thus the secrets, of other programmes and the operating system. Meltdown is system-wide and affects both personal computers and cloud infrastructure.

Spectre, on the other hand, breaks isolation between programs. This means Spectre is program …read more

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