spectre and meltdown
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Intel Reportedly Warned Of Critical Chip Security Flaws A Year Ago
Security researchers who played a role in uncovering the Spectre and Meltdown attacks that targeted microprocessors revealed on Tuesday a new vulnerability in Intel chips which they claim the company failed to address after it was first alerted a year ago.
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It Doesn’t Look Like Spectre And Meltdown Really Hurt Intel At All
When the Spectre and Meltdown security vulnerabilities were made public earlier this year, things were a mess. Practically every Intel processor made in the last decade had backdoors that potentially let normal programs and software access what are supposed to be protected areas of a CPU’s kernel.