18-01-2018 18:15 via huffingtonpost.ca

What You Can Do About The Massive Chip Security Flaw That Puts Many Devices At Risk

On Jan. 3, 2018, Intel announced that most of its chip processors that run the world's computers, tablets and smartphones have a feature that makes them susceptible to hacker attacks. The flaw also affects internet browsers and cloud computing services like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.Specifically, the problem is that processors have the ability to guess what data is going to be needed next by an application and load it into cache memory ready to be executed. The securi
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