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Security Roundup: White House Staffers Can't Use Personal Smartphones Anymore

Published: Jan. 8, 2018, 4:31 p.m.

It\u2019s not every week that you have a once-in-a-generation security disaster. You know, definitionally. So let\u2019s lead off with Meltdown and Spectre, a pair of attacks that impacts the processors inside most computers today. It\u2019s quite a mess! While technically complicated, Meltdown and Spectre are best understood in terms of scale. Every Intel processor since 1995 is impacted, along with AMD and ARM-based chips.