Google
says it's got
your back on
major CPU vulnerability
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Two newly disclosed
processor vulnerabilities threaten the security of devices around the globe, but
Google is here to tell you that it totally has
your back. Well, for one of them, at least.*
The Mountain View-based company explained Wednesday on its
security blog that
it's been aware of the risks posed by the “speculative execution”
vulnerability for some time now, and has been working to fix potentially at-risk systems.
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Microsoft just issued a fix for that big Intel processor vulnerability
"As soon as we learned of this new class of attack, our security and product development teams mobilized to defend Google’s systems and our users’ data,"
Google explained in the blog post. "We have updated our systems and affected products to protect against this new type of attack."
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