Meltdown And Spectre CPU Flaws Put Computers, Laptops, Phones At Risk | Linux Today

Meltdown And Spectre CPU Flaws Put Computers, Laptops, Phones At Risk

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Jan 4, 2018

Today Google security blog has posted about the two vulnerabilities that put virtually many computers, phones, laptops using Intel, AMD and ARM CPUs at risk. Using the two major flaws hackers can gain read access to the system memory that may include sensitive data including passwords, encryption keys etc.

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