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Week in review: Meltdown, Spectre, online tracking, and cryptojacking
2018-01-08 04:24

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Meltdown and Spectre: Data theft hardware bugs affect most modern CPUs A design flaw in most moder processors can be exploited to allows a program to access the memory of other programs and the OS, as well as allow attackers to trick applications into accessing arbitrary locations in their memory and leaking their secrets. Chip and browser makers are moving to mitigate … More →


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