Intel failed to tell regulator about chip flaws

Stefan Mileschin · 26th February 2018, 19:22

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Chipzilla is in hot water for forgetting to tell US cybersecurity officials about the Meltdown and Spectre chip security flaws until they leaked to the public.

Six months after Alphabet notified the chipmaker of the problems, Government officials were still to hear about the problem until it was leaked to the newspapers. Apparently, they are a little concerned because if some foreign power found out about the issue, US systems were utterly vulnerable.

They are not happy about it either. Current and former U.S. government officials had raised concerns that the government was not informed of the flaws before they became public because the flaws potentially held national security implications. Chipzilla said it did not think the weaknesses needed to be shared with U.S. authorities as hackers had not exploited the vulnerabilities.

https://fudzilla.com/news/processors...out-chip-flaws

26th February 2018, 19:22	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,541	Intel failed to tell regulator about chip flaws Need to know only US-CERT Chipzilla is in hot water for forgetting to tell US cybersecurity officials about the Meltdown and Spectre chip security flaws until they leaked to the public. Six months after Alphabet notified the chipmaker of the problems, Government officials were still to hear about the problem until it was leaked to the newspapers. Apparently, they are a little concerned because if some foreign power found out about the issue, US systems were utterly vulnerable. They are not happy about it either. Current and former U.S. government officials had raised concerns that the government was not informed of the flaws before they became public because the flaws potentially held national security implications. Chipzilla said it did not think the weaknesses needed to be shared with U.S. authorities as hackers had not exploited the vulnerabilities. https://fudzilla.com/news/processors...out-chip-flaws

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