Meltdown and Spectre: all iPhones and Macs are affected by bug, says Apple

Tech giant has released security updates for its portable iOS devices

Two major security vulnerabilities have been found to affect most CPUs
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Apple has warned customers that all of its iPhones, iPads and Macs are vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre security flaws which could leave them vulnerable to hackers.

Reports of the two major security flaws surfaced yesterday when experts discovered that hackers could access sensitive data such as passwords that are stored in quarantined sections of a computer’s memory.

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