Tech companies scramble to patch microchip security flaws
Technology companies are playing down the severity of two recently discovered security problems with computer microchips, saying there will be no need for widespread hardware replacements to shield millions of devices from hacker.
But this week, Google and other security researchers revealed two major chip flaws. One of them, called Meltdown, affects only Intel Corp chips, while the other, called Spectre, impacts almost all computer chips made in the past 10 years.
These flaws could permit a hacker to read passwords stored in a device’s memory or see what tabs a person has open on his computer, according to CNN....