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Intel chips released in past 5 yrs have unfixable security bug

San Francisco, March 7 (IANS) Researchers have discovered a major new security flaw inside processors made by US multinational corporation and chip making giant Intel that could defeat hardware-based encryption and DRM protections.

According to security company Positive Technologies, the security bug could break apart a chain of trust for important technology like silicon-based encryption,…

The new security flaw affects all Intel chips released after 2011

The new security flaw affects all Intel chips released after 2011

Security researchers have just discovered a series of new security flaws present in Intel processors. Last year, two of them, called Meltdown and Specter, were discovered inside the Intel processor chips. These errors exploited a flaw in the speculative execution of the processors to filter confidential data. Speculative execution…