Early last week news outlets and online publishers broke news of a critical flaw in computer chips manufactured by chip giant Intel. These chips, some of the most commonly used chips globally have two significant vulnerabilities that allow malicious persons to hack into the computer’s internal CPU and memory, which can lead to the complete compromise of a system. The exploit was discovered by researchers in Germany who wrote in disbelief to news agencies as they described their findings. These exploits have been named Meltdown and Spectre, click the link to learn more about what each of these consist of.