Intel CPUs are leaking passwords and killing performance | Digital Trends
A recently discovered vulnerability that affects lots of Intel CPUs could steal your data, but there's a fix. The downside? It'll cost you performance.
xilophor, 
Hasn’t this happened before?
palordrolap, Yes. Meltdown and Spectre (twice) if not others.
The Register's article on the vulnerability contains more information about this, as well as what appears to be an equivalent problem that affects AMD processors.
Spudwart, Starting to see why people stick to 15+ year old think pads running Linux.
bridge_too_close, 
Yes, there were similar vulnerabilities found around 5 years ago, known as Meltdown and Spectre.
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