Intel posted a list of chip models that could be tripped up by the patch, meant to prevent hackers from taking advantage of so-called Meltdown and Spectre flaws to steal data. The US chip giant recommended that computer makers, cloud service providers, system manufacturers, software vendors, and end users stop deployment of current versions of the patch. US lawmaker asks Intel, others for briefing on chip flaws“They may introduce higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behavior,” Intel data centre group executive vice president Navin Shenoy said in an online post. In the meantime, computer users were advised to be vigilant with security practices. Researchers at Google showed how a hacker could exploit the flaw in many kinds of computer chips to get passwords, encryption codes and more, even though there have been no reports of any attacks using the vulnerability.

Source: The Express Tribune January 23, 2018 07:07 UTC