Anon Archived Security Now Meltdown patches are making industrial control systems lurch (theregister.co.uk)
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Anon Archived Security Now Meltdown patches are making industrial control systems lurch (theregister.co.uk)
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[–] tribblepuncher ago
Unfortunately this isn't a big surprise. SCADA has been traditionally designed for reliability, not security. Worse yet, I'd say it's arguable that conventional digital computers probably will never be fully secure, so there are limits on how far they can take it anyway.
[–] derram ago
https://archive.fo/g4dTq :
'Patches for the Meltdown vulnerability are causing stability issues in industrial control systems. ', "SCADA vendor Wonderware admitted that Redmond's Meltdown patch made its Historian product wobble."
'Browser vendors are now implementing countermeasures that should "decrease the possibility to mount Spectre attacks within the browser successfully to zero," Lipp added. '
'The expected and well-publicised system slowdown issues from Meltdown and Spectre patches (Reg reports here, here and here) have been accompanied by even more irksome stability problems on some systems. '
'Beaumont is curating a list of issues with Meltdown security patches here. '
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