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Yup, AMD's Elba and Giglio definitely sound like they work corporate security
2025-02-11 23:22

Which is why Cisco is adding these Pensando DPUs to more switches Cisco is cramming into more of its switches Pensando data processing units (DPUs) from AMD, which will be dedicated to handling...

AMD fixes bug that lets hackers load malicious microcode patches
2025-02-05 18:30

​AMD has released mitigation and firmware updates to address a high-severity vulnerability that can be exploited to load malicious CPU microcode on unpatched devices. [...]

Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number
2025-02-04 23:30

Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least Googlers have not only figured out how to break AMD's security – allowing them to load unofficial microcode into...

AMD SEV-SNP Vulnerability Allows Malicious Microcode Injection with Admin Access
2025-02-04 08:58

A security vulnerability has been disclosed in AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) that could permit an attacker to load a malicious CPU microcode under specific conditions. The flaw,...

Asus lets processor security fix slip out early, AMD confirms patch in progress
2025-01-23 07:19

Answers on a postcard to what 'Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability' might mean AMD has confirmed at least some of its microprocessors suffer a microcode-related security vulnerability,...

BadRAM: $10 hack unlocks AMD encrypted memory
2024-12-11 11:09

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a vulnerability (CVE-2024-21944, aka BadRAM) affecting ADM processors that can be triggered by rogue memory modules to unlock the chips’ encrypted memory....

AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling
2024-12-10 16:00

Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory Researchers have found that the security mechanism AMD uses to protect virtual machine memory can be bypassed with $10...

Microsoft expands Recall preview to Intel and AMD Copilot+ PCs
2024-12-06 19:06

​Microsoft is now testing its AI-powered Recall feature on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs enrolled in the Windows 11 Insider program. [...]

New Research Reveals Spectre Vulnerability Persists in Latest AMD and Intel Processors
2024-10-29 05:53

More than six years after the Spectre security flaw impacting modern CPU processors came to light, new research has found that the latest AMD and Intel processors are still susceptible to...

Intel, AMD CPUs on Linux impacted by newly disclosed Spectre bypass
2024-10-18 14:48

The latest generations of Intel processors, including Xeon chips, and AMD's older Zen 1, Zen 1+, and Zen 2 microarchitectures on Linux are vulnerable to new speculative execution attacks that...