A new type of Spectre, or security flaw, has been discovered in Intel processors. It works differently than the ones found earlier. Spectre, a security flaw in processors, is a hardware-level defect which puts user data in risk as it lets hackers easily read user activity. It was first discovered in Intel processors and later in new AMD processors too, which means millions of devices, since the past two decades, have had this vulnerability. Intel has released several software patches for people with ‘older’ processors as a workaround to the vulnerability, however, these patches significantly reduced the processors’ performance. Though the company had somewhat contained the earlier defect, a new Spectre variant, called Variant 4, has been found by Intel and Microsoft. This time, the defect makes the same areas of data vulnerable, however, extracts this data in a different manner as compared to the previous flaw discovered in January, says I...