iTnews Weekly Security Wrap - Wednesday January 10, 2018

+ Meltdown and Spectre fix will slow down machines; US Homeland Security's data breach; and more

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Wednesday January 10, 2018

Latest News

Govt-certified clouds face questions on chip flaws

By Ry Crozier

Meltdown and Spectre cause local concern.

Meltdown and Spectre fix will slow down machines

By Juha Saarinen

Benchmark tests from Intel, Red Hat and Microsoft.

US Homeland Security sheds light on data breach

By Staff Writer

Follows leaked documents late last year.

Improved wi-fi security coming this year

By Juha Saarinen

Wi-Fi Alliance announces WPA3 protocol.

Microsoft's Spectre fix bricks PCs with older AMD CPUs

By Juha Saarinen

Athlons and Semprons affected.

Western Digital shuts remotely exploitable NAS backdoor

By Juha Saarinen

Issues firmware upgrade.

Critical chip flaw affects Intel, AMD and ARM

By Ry Crozier

Google reveals research role, origins of vulnerability.

"123456" tops list of worst passwords again

By Allie Coyne

'Password' steady in second.

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