For those who haven’t seen anything about this yet, details of two new exploits that could enable malicious code on websites to trick your computer or mobile devices CPU into giving away private information such as website passwords have been made public.

Overview

Essentially the semiconductors industry has made a huge blunder and left a security design flaw in many CPUs such as are used in computers and mobile devices. It’s pretty serious – CERT The Cyber Emergency Response Team in the US originally recommended: “Throwing your CPU away and getting a new one” to be completely safe – they have now downgraded this advice to ‘apply updates’ which is much more helpful and realistic.

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