On the lack of security in chips, Intel said, 'customers data secure, system updates soon'

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Intel Chief Executive Officer Brian Craigenic, who is facing controversy over two security bottlenecks in his chips, has made a comment on the issue for the first time and said that the data of customers is safe and you can patch it quickly in your system. Run. Intel, AMD and ARM chips are affected by these security flaws called 'meltdown' and 'spectra', which have been used for the past two decades. Google has disclosed these security flaws called 'meltdown' and 'spectra' in chips, which can cause hackers to steal the information needed from the system.

Addressing the crowd gathered here in CES 2018, Craigenic said, "I thank the industry for finding the latest security flaws and finding solutions for them. This issue affecting the whole industry But the cooperation of many companies has really been remarkable. "

Intel's CEO said to the people present, "Our primary goal is to keep our customers safe. We have not received any such information that due to this security flaw, there is an incident like stealing the data of customers or loss of customers."

They have asked everyone to run the safety patches as soon as they are available on their own system. Intel had said last week that it is releasing updates for all types of Intel-based compteware systems (including both personal computers and servers) that will remove this security bottleneck.