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Lenovo: IT pros can 'laugh at would-be hackers' with AMD Ryzen-powered ThinkPads
2018-07-17 13:34

In the wake of Spectre and Meltdown, some organizations are diversifying their technology buys. Lenovo's new Ryzen-powered ThinkPads bring choice to business notebooks.

SEVered Attack Extracts the Memory of AMD-Encrypted VMs
2018-05-29 19:50

Virtual machines that use AMD’s hardware-based encryption scheme are vulnerable to attacks that can extract the full contents of their main memory – in plaintext.

Encryption of AMD EPYC VMs can be broken, researchers prove
2018-05-29 17:54

AMD EPYC server chipsets are supposed to provide a high level of security, but a German team has managed to gain control through a hypervisor exploit.

Attack Bypasses AMD's Virtual Machine Encryption
2018-05-29 09:56

A group of German researchers has devised a new attack method capable of bypassing AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). read more

Researchers Defeat AMD's SEV Virtual Machine Encryption
2018-05-28 08:48

German security researchers claim to have found a new practical attack against virtual machines (VMs) protected using AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology that could allow...

Epyc fail? We can defeat AMD's virtual machine encryption, say boffins
2018-05-25 19:45

Evil hypervisors can lift plain-text info out of ciphered memory, it is claimed German researchers have devised a method to thwart the security mechanisms AMD's Epyc server chips use to...

Researchers crack open AMD's server VM encryption
2018-05-25 19:45

SEV attack would let hypervisors lift memory contents A group of German researchers have devised a method to thwart the VM security in AMD's server chips.…

New speculative-execution vulnerability strikes AMD, ARM, and Intel
2018-05-22 16:24

Fortunately, existing fixes should provide the protection we need.

New Spectre (Variant 4) CPU Flaw Discovered—Intel, ARM, AMD Affected
2018-05-22 08:33

Security researchers from Microsoft and Google have discovered a fourth variant of the data-leaking Meltdown-Spectre security flaws impacting modern CPUs in millions of computers, including those...

AMD users running Windows 10 get their Spectre fix
2018-04-12 18:25

AMD has released new microcode updates for mitigating variant 2 of the Spectre attack and Microsoft has released an OS update with the mitigation to AMD users running Windows 10. As you might...