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Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more (www.pcworld.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Disagree. For non-security conscious users who install that helper tool or plugin for their game, it can now read bank credentials from the browser.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you're a non-security-conscious user installing malicious software on your computer then I don't think there's much that could help you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

But these are the people we (the security community) should be helping. If we don't help those who don't have the skills to help themselves, scammers have a large target and keep on scamming. We are not a target.

Granted, this post isn't necessarily about that, but they'll be the one's targeted regardless. Sometimes the best way to reduce the attack vector is about people, not software.