WOW – CPU bodge up is big news

Recent breaking news calls into question the security of any of your data held on your tech @home or in the office. The paranoid out there will be discarding old hardware for new but what does this mean for the industry at large?

I just wonder how this hasn’t been discovered until last year, and why are we only just finding out about recently?

Below are links to Chrome fix and general comments on the issue.

 

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/7623121?hl=en

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a14616537/meltdown-spectre-exploits-browser-update/