Chip error, the technology world at risk

in #technology7 years ago (edited)

Google and Austria researchers found the hardware error in chip meltdown.

All the chipsets of the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers have been found to be critical. In this week, computer chips have been identified by two hardware bugs called Meltdown and Specter. The miscreants can capture information stored on computer by using this error due to the bug. Since the knowledge of this, the technology-makers have grown up to correct the error.

Technology analysts say millions of PCs, smartphones and tablets around the world have two bugs or hardware errors in the mailtdown and speaker.

Apple products are generally considered safe. However, Apple has acknowledged that the error has been found in the product. The software has opened the software patches to fix errors.

It has been said from Apple that the error was found, but it did not prove that the miscreants used it. The company has advised not to download it from sources other than a trusted source to avoid harmful app downloads.

Mac computer users feel that their devices are safer than traditional Android phones and Microsoft system computers. However, many modern computer processor makers like Meltadon and Spector errors were found in Microchip manufacturers like Intel and ARM.

According to Apple's blog post, all Mac systems and IOS devices have been detected in the error. This problem is in all modern processors and has been caught in almost all computing devices and operating systems. Apple has updated patches for iPhone and iPad to match Meltdown errors. To update the patches on the Safari browser for the soon-to-be Specter.

Microsoft and Google have acknowledged the issue of having this error in their products. Google has said that Android phones users who own more than 80 percent of the world's market are safe to use update software. Microsoft released software patch for various services. Windows software has asked users to update anti-virus software before updating the operating system patch.

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