Regarding Spectre and Meltdown

On January 3, 2018, the Graz University of Technology released their papers on identified vulnerabilities dubbed “Meltdown” and “Spectre” via the website https://meltdownattack.com. Within the papers, they went over these critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited in modern processors from hardware bugs that would allow programs to steal data that is currently being processed on the computer. These exploits affect desktop, laptop, cloud computing and smartphone platforms.