Spectre & Meltdown Intel vulnerability in millions of Intel computers

in #intel7 years ago (edited)

A serious flaw in the design of Intel computer chips has been identified. Intel are staying tight lipped about what the vulnerability is.

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It affects Microsoft, Linux and Apple, so nobody gets away. This will affect millions of computers!

A patch is being produced but some are saying due to the nature of the issue the patch could make computers anywhere from 5 - 30 % slower!!!

The vulnerability is believed to give an attacker access to the memory used by the CPU, this could contain passwords and usernames.

Keep your eye out for this one and when its available get it installed!

http://www.zdnet.com/article/security-flaws-affect-every-intel-chip-since-1995-arm-processors-vulnerable/