EPISODE · Mar 14, 2018 · 8 MIN
Researchers Point to an AMD Backdoor—And Face Their Own Backlash
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
When the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities were revealed in millions of processors earlier this year, those deep-seated vulnerabilities rattled practically the entire computer industry. Now a group of Israeli researchers is outlining a new set of chip-focused vulnerabilities that, if confirmed, would represent another collection of flaws at the core of computer hardware, this time in a processor architecture designed by AMD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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When the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities were revealed in millions of processors earlier this year, those deep-seated vulnerabilities rattled practically the entire computer industry. Now a group of Israeli researchers is outlining a new set of chip-focused vulnerabilities that, if confirmed, would represent another collection of flaws at the core of computer hardware, this time in a processor architecture designed by AMD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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