Hardware security bug: Difference between revisions

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In digital computing, '''hardware security bugs''' are [[hardware bug]]s or flaws that create vulnerabilities affecting computer [[central processing unit]]s (CPUs), or other devices which incorporate programmable processorslogic orand have [[direct memory access]], which allow data to be read by a rogue process when such reading is not authorized. Such vulnerabilities are considered "catastrophic" by security analysts.<ref> {{cite web

| url=https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/01/spectre_and_mel_1.html

| author = Bruce Schneier