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REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A new generation of microchip could fill a gap in Microsoft programs that has left its software and Windows operating systems vulnerable to hackers.
A security gap known as a "buffer overflow" was found in programs that lets hackers force private information to overflow into another memory bank. Hackers can then access the exposed data and insert malicious code into a computer's operating system.
Microsoft recently issued a "critical security alert" in response to the overflows, and the problem worsened when source code for the Windows operating system was leaked onto the Internet.
The weakness is hard to detect in programming languages like C and C++, so chip makers Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are redesigning their Athlon-64 and Opteron chips to guard against the problem from the hardware side when used with the new version of Windows XP.
Intel plans to fit the next generation of its popular Pentium chip with a similar feature.
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