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Business Jan 5, 2018

How a researcher hacked his own computer and discovered Meltdown

by Douglas Busvine

Daniel Gruss didn't sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel Corp. The 31-year-old information security researcher and post-doctoral fellow at Austria's Graz Technical University ...

Business / Tech Jan 4, 2018

Security flaws affecting chips from Intel, AMD and ARM could put virtually all phones and computers at risk

Security researchers on Wednesday disclosed a set of security flaws that they said could let hackers steal sensitive information from nearly every modern computing device containing chips from Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and ARM Holdings. One of the bugs is specific to Intel ...