Security News > 2019 > March > Algorithms can now find bugs in computer chips before they are made

In early 2018, cybersecurity researchers discovered two security flaws they said were present in almost every high-end processor made and used by major companies. UPEC product development team (l to r): Mo Fadiheh, Wolfgang Kunz, Dominik Stoffel. Known, ominously, as Spectre and Meltdown, these flaws were troubling because they represented a new type of breach not previously known that could allow hackers to infer secret data – passwords, social security numbers, medical records – from … More → The post Algorithms can now find bugs in computer chips before they are made appeared first on Help Net Security.

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