Very Bad News for Almost All Computers

By Rob Quinn

January 4, 2018

Security experts worldwide are melting down over Meltdown and feeling haunted by Spectre.

Those are the names security researchers have given two massive, newly discovered security flaws that affect central processing units at the chip level, meaning nearly all computers are at risk no matter what kind of operating system they run, TechCrunch reports.

The bugs, discovered by researchers from Google's Project Zero team and independent other teams, exploit flaws in computer architecture that make it possible for malicious software to steal information from other programs, according to a website set up by researchers to explain them. The researchers had planned to wait until fixes were available next week before disclosing the flaws, but they released them early after a tech site revealed the vulnerabilities, the AP reports.

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