Vulnerability In Intel Processors Affected Millions of PCs. Intel and AMD processor researchers discovered two important security holes, Spectrum, and Meltdown. Researchers found that speculative execution can be used to trick Intel processors to capture sensitive data being transferred from one component of a chip to another. With fast and successive execution, a hacker could collect enough random data to capture everything from passwords to keys used to decrypt disks. Intel said their researchers discovered the vulnerability last year and now have fixes available at the hardware and software level.”]
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