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Meltdown and Spectre: New Intel CPU Vulnerabilities Discovered

Meltdown and Spectre: New Intel CPU Vulnerabilities Discovered

Until this week, Spectre was just the fictitious name of a secret organisation bent on world domination in a James Bond movie. Today, it is something far more real, though equally as sinister a design flaw in Intel microprocessors that leaves any data in their memory vulnerable to malicious exploitation. Intel’s flaw means that applications, …

Anti-Virus is now Dead.

Anti-Virus is now Dead.

Yes, the computer-crippling, time-taking, constantly updating and utterly boring Anti-Virus is almost dead. For many years now users have felt that the usefulness and utility of their anti-virus was not up to the mark. Usually a anti-virus is supposed to prevent attacks and restrict hackers but on most of the occasions it fails to do …