Saturday, January 20, 2018

"Technology" in the news

Lever, Rob. "Security Flaws Puts Virtually All Phones, Computers at Risk."
    Public Radio International, 4 Jan. 2018, www.pri.org/stories/2018-01-04/
    security-flaws-put-virtually-all-phones-computers-risk. Accessed 8 Jan.
    2018.

On Wednesday, vulnerabilities, which hackers could use to obtain important data, were found in computer chips. These vulnerabilities named “Spectre” and “Meltdown” by Google were found to be plaguing computer chips from Intel, AMD, and ARM. Even though Microsoft said that they were unaware of the situation they had been launching updates “‘to protect Windows customers from vulnerabilities.’” According to security researchers, it is critical that updates are performed to ensure that passwords, credit card data, and other private information is not susceptible to hackers.

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