It’s another month, and another major IT-related security problem has been uncovered. The latest, the security flaws discovered in Intel, AMD, and AMR chips that can allow the bypassing of operating system security protections are a bit different than most vulnerabilities. They are hardware rather than software-based, and their impacts are exceptionally widespread, impacting nearly every Intel processor made since the mid-1990s. Billions of chips in total could be affected.
The IT security breach most in the U.S. news media before the Intel et al. chip flaw was the Equifax breach, where the personal credit information of some 145 million Americans was compromised. That breach, along with others at health insurance company Anthem and retailer Target spurred the U.S. Congress to hold multiple hearings, with politicians on both sides of the aisle promising that new laws would be quickly passed to force companies to protect citizens’ private data. I hope you didn’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen.
Full reading: https://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/will-us-corporations-ever-take-cybersecurity-seriously
The IT security breach most in the U.S. news media before the Intel et al. chip flaw was the Equifax breach, where the personal credit information of some 145 million Americans was compromised. That breach, along with others at health insurance company Anthem and retailer Target spurred the U.S. Congress to hold multiple hearings, with politicians on both sides of the aisle promising that new laws would be quickly passed to force companies to protect citizens’ private data. I hope you didn’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen.
Full reading: https://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/will-us-corporations-ever-take-cybersecurity-seriously