Week in tech: unexpected purchases, old security flaws, and Bulldozer

Aug 28th, 2010

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Why Intel bought McAfee : Theories abound for why Intel bought McAfee, but the reality is more prosaic than most imagine. The Aurora attacks on Google and others were a wakeup call for Intel, and the company got serious about developing vPro’s security potential. But to do that, they had to be able to offer products and services directly to the consumer. Windows DLL-loading security flaw puts Microsoft in a bind : The rediscovery of an old attack method based on the way that Windows loads DLLs places Microsoft in a tricky position: a change to Windows will fix the problem once and for all, but could break third-party software that relies on the operating system working the way it has worked for 20 years

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