The American company Apple is about to launch a new update for the Safari application on its various smart devices, which include the iPhone, Mac and iPad, and the update for the new will carry many reforms in addition to patching some security flaws that may have reached the American company through many security experts.
On Wednesday, Alphabet Inc.'s Google and other internet security researchers revealed some flaws in the Safari browser, among the most important of these flaws is a flaw in the chips, one of them called Meltdown that affects only Intel chips and another called Specter that affects nearly all computer chips that were made during The past ten years. The news sparked a massive sell-off of Intel shares as investors tried to assess the costs for the computer chip maker.
Apple said in a statement on its website that Meltdown and Specter affected all devices running Mac and IOS, but the latest update to the operating systems of Mac computers, Apple TVs, iPhone and iPads protected users from the Meltdown attack and did not lead to hardware slowdowns.
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