close Video Intel chief Dan Coats says media outlets need to step up Cybersecurity and privacy attorney Leeza Garber on Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats’ warning to media outlets. Intel is facing a new chip vulnerability that could allow attackers to steal personal information from your PC. The flaw, referred to generally as Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) or “ZombieLoad,” can affect any operating system running on Intel processors. That includes Windows, Apple’s macOS, and Google’s Chrome OS. All of those companies have released advisories or patches addressing the problem. Similar to last year’s Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities that affected Intel chips, the flaw is a so-called “speculative execution side channel” vulnerability. GRUMPY CAT’S FUNNIEST MEMES IN HONOR OF THE FAMOUS FELINE’S DEATH The upshot is, sensitive user information such as browser history, website content, user keys, passwords, and disk encryption keys, could be pilfered, says Zombieloadattack, a website hosted by Graz University of Technology, one of the organizations that spotted the vulnerability. “This vulnerability represents a scary reality… Cyber attackers are exploiting the identities of machines to obtain sensitive data,” Kevin Bocek, vice president of security strategy and threat intelligence at Venafi, told Fox News in a statement. Digital… Read full this story
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