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10. 11 2010 (06:10)

Computer scientists reveal a new class of malware that attacks specific processors rather than the operating system that runs on them

Computer malware is insidious and dangerous but there are well known limits to the kinds of attacks that it can be used to mount. One of the most obvious is that the malware has to be targeted at a weakness in a specific operating system.