InterServer takes customer security with pride. Hear our story on how we tackled the recent security scare which targeted end-users nation wide. What is Meltdown and Spectre? You may have heard of terms like Meltdown and Spectre in recent tech news. Both exhibit a hardware vulnerability exposed by a small team in Austria. Through software, both are able to access private data on a server, but how is this possible? The vulnerability begins at the most inner core of a computer, the Central Processing Unit (CPU). By observing micro processes and transactions, these programs were able to access other parts of the computer that may not be relevant to the actual programs running. For instance, e-mails, files, browsing history, etc. were all subject to vulnerability.  While the technical understanding of Meltdown and Spectre is extremely high level, it is important to understand that InterServer took immediate action