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Meltdown Security Flaws And Spectre Bugs: What You Need To Know.. by Nobody: 10:43pm On Jan 04, 2018
Researchers from Google, academia and cybersecurity firms discovered two flaws in computer chips that affect nearly all modern computers:

Meltdown
This is a flaw that affects laptops, desktop computers and internet servers with Intel chips. It lets hackers bypass the hardware barrier between applications run by users and the computer's kernel memory.

This has the potential to let hackers access the content of this portion of a computer's memory. This would enable them to steal data, such as passwords saved in web browsers.. ..Read More »

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Re: Meltdown Security Flaws And Spectre Bugs: What You Need To Know.. by Nobody: 8:04pm On Jan 05, 2018
Apple's iOS and Macs devices also affected by Meltdown Spectre chip flaws.. Read → https://forum.naijastore.net/Apple-s-iOS-and-Macs-devices-also-affected-by-Meltdown-Spectre-chip-flaws-tp3032.html
Re: Meltdown Security Flaws And Spectre Bugs: What You Need To Know.. by Nobody: 3:23pm On Sep 29, 2018

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