Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two major software vulnerabilities in the Intel microprocessors inside the vast majority of all computers. Dubbed “Meltdown” and “Spectre,” the vulnerabilities could allow hackers to siphon off the entire memory contents of computers, mobile phones and servers that run on cloud networks.
Two Cipher Brief experts – Bob Gourley and Michael Sulmeyer – offered distinctly different takes in conversation with The Cipher Brief, adapted below.
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