On the ‘net: Spectre, Meltdown, and Flexible Scaleout The recent Meltdown and Spectre attacks illustrate the problematic nature of modern computing systems. While the earlier Rowhammer attack could read or attack one process running in a virtual environment from another process running on the same processor, the Meltdown and Spectre attacks are of a completely different class, enabling a process to read large amounts of information from another process’ memory space. @GestaltIT Related Posted in ON THE NET, SECURITY ← Enterprise versus Provider?Worth Reading: Pushed to th Edge →