CHIP makers are planning a new generation of microprocessors that should plug the gaps that led Microsoft to issue a “critical security alert” last week.
The alert was sparked by the discovery that a raft of Microsoft programs were vulnerable to a problem called “buffer overflow”, which hackers can exploit to extract private information from a PC. And the risk of such attacks only worsened when, two days after the alert was issued, critical Windows “source code” was leaked onto the internet – letting hackers see how it works.
A buffer is a section of computer memory that can store a…
