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As Intel was rushing to roll out patches for Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, security researchers have discovered a new critical security flaw in Intel hardware that could allow hackers to access corporate laptops remotely.

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In the past 48 hours, there has been a flurry of activity as hardware and software vendors move to address two sets of vulnerabilities that have been dubbed “Meltdown” and “Spectre”.

This blog is meant to give an overview of the situation, the vulnerabilities, assist Palo Alto Networks customers and others with their risk assessment, and provide recommendations for actions they can take to prevent successful attacks against these vulnerabilities.

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As software developers, we are doing a terrible job of protecting the data we collect from our users because software security is hopelessly broken. This is a huge topic so I’ll restrict my comments to coding, encryption/hashing, web server configurations, regulation, and what we can do about the security of the software we create and maintain.

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Neue Sicherheitslücken beunruhigen Menschen weltweit: Betroffen sind die Prozessoren von Computern, Tablets und Smartphones. Was hat es mit den Angriffen Spectre und Meltdown auf sich? Die wichtigsten Antworten.

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Unlike the initial reports suggested about Intel chips being vulnerable to some severe ‘memory leaking’ flaws, full technical details about the vulnerabilities have now been emerged, which revealed that almost every modern processor since 1995 is vulnerable to the issues.

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