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In digital computing, hardware security bugs are hardware bugs or flaws that create vulnerabilities affecting computer central processing units (CPUs) which allow data to be read by a rogue process when such reading is not authorized. Such vulnerabilities are considered "catastrophic" by security analysts.[1][2][3]

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References

  1. ^ Bruce Schneier (January 5, 2018). "Spectre and Meltdown Attacks Against Microprocessors – Schneier on Security". www.schneier.com. Retrieved February 4, 2019. Spectre and Meltdown are pretty catastrophic vulnerabilities, ...
  2. ^ "This Week in Security: Internet Meltdown Over Spectre of CPU Bug". Cylance.com. 2018-01-05. Retrieved February 4, 2019. The security implications of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities are indeed catastrophic for systems engineering.
  3. ^ "Meltdown, Spectre: here's what you should know". Rudebaguette.com. January 8, 2018. Retrieved February 4, 2019. [sic]: The effects of these vulnerabilities are catastrophic: « at best, the vulnerability can be used by malwares and hackers to exploit other security linked bugs. At worse, the flaw can be used by softwares and authentified users to read the kernel's memory