New Intel security flaws could slow some chips by nearly 20%

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Intel Corp and a group of security researchers on Tuesday said they had found a ...

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Intel calls the newly discovered flaws “Microarchitectural Data Sampling,” or MDS for short. The vulnerability could let hackers read nearly all data flowing through one of Intel’s chips, though the company said the attack is difficult to carry out and that it has not seen it used outside of labs. Intel last year disclosed that hackers could potentially read sensitive data on its processors, which power most data centers and personal computers, by exploiting a feature called speculative execution, in which the chip tries to guess which computations it will carry out ahead of time in an effort to speed up the chip.

 

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