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Intel offers security fixes for Centrino wireless chips

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Intel quietly patched the driver software for its Centrino wireless chips to fix three vulnerabilities. The most serious glitch could allow an attacker to run remote code and take over a whole system, while the other two flaws could grant kernel-level access and sensitive data about memory sharing. (Ed. note: Intel timed the update to precede the present Black Hat conference, as well as Defcon which begins tomorrow.)

For more on wireless:
- check out this eWeek article

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