Chip vulnerabilities serious, widespread but not catastrophic

SALT LAKE CITY — While recent revelations of vulnerabilities in microprocessor chips made by Intel and others may be contributing to the collective paranoia about digital security, a local cyberexpert characterized the flaws as serious but not catastrophic.
"When we've had a series of headline-grabbing issues about intrusions and hacks, we can run into this problem of security fatigue," said Utah Valley University Cybersecurity Program Director Robert Jorgensen. "We want to avoid that if a