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Epic disasters: ZombieLoad, WhatsApp, Google 2FA Keys, and Microsoft RDP

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It's been a busy week for security vulnerabilities. ZombieLoad affects all recent Intel processors, and Apple has issued a fix for it. A serious WhatsApp vulnerability made the evening news because it was so dangerous. And Google and Microsoft had a few issues as well.

  • WhatsApp exploit let attackers install government-grade spyware on phones
  • Facebook's brief explanation of the WhatsApp vulnerability
  • You probably weren’t a target of the WhatsApp surveillance hack
  • Buffer overflow (Wikipedia)
  • Remote code execution, or arbitrary code execution (Wikipedia)
  • Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (Wikipedia)
  • Microsoft Issues Urgent Fix For Windows In First XP Patch Since WannaCry
  • Titan-ic disaster: Bluetooth blunder sinks Google's 2FA keys, free replacements offered
  • Apple security updates
  • Episode 13: Is My Computer's CPU Secure? (discussion of Meltdown and Spectre)
  • Additional mitigations for speculative execution vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs
  • How to enable full mitigation for Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities
  • SGX enclaves
  • CPUSetter

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