Security News

Multiple Vulnerabilities Found in AMD ATI Radeon Graphics Cards
2020-01-22 22:04

Security vulnerabilities in some AMD ATI Radeon graphics cards could allow attackers to remotely execute code or cause a denial of service condition, researchers from Cisco Talos have warned. A total of four security flaws were disclosed, all of them impacting the AMD ATIDXX64.

IGEL integrates the AMD Secure Processor on IGEL UD7 endpoints
2019-12-05 00:15

IGEL, provider of the next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces, announced that it has integrated the AMD Secure Processor on IGEL UD7 endpoints, effectively creating a dedicated ‘chain of trust’...

A Broken Random Number Generator in AMD Microcode
2019-10-31 11:24

Interesting story. I always recommend using a random number generator like Fortuna, even if you're using a hardware random source. It's just safer....

How to break out of a hypervisor: Abuse Qemu-KVM on-Linux pre-5.3 – or VMware with an AMD driver
2019-09-18 10:27

Pair of bug reports show how VM escapes put servers at risk A pair of newly disclosed security flaws could allow malicious virtual machine guests to break out of their hypervisor's walled gardens...

AMD Radeon Graphics Cards Open VMware Workstations to Attack
2019-09-17 17:03

Bug impacts VMware Workstation 15 running 64-bit versions of Windows 10 as the guest VM.

AMD Radeon Driver Flaw Leads to VM Escape
2019-09-17 13:37

A vulnerability in the AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL driver could be triggered from within a VMware guest to execute code on the host, Cisco Talos warns. read more

Deja-woooo: Intel, AMD chips running Windows potentially vulnerable to scary Spectre variant
2019-08-06 23:01

SWAPGS attack can leak sensitive secrets from kernel memory, patches already available Spectre – a family of data-leaking side-channel vulnerabilities arising from speculative execution that was...

AMD's SEV tech that protects cloud VMs from rogue servers may as well stand for... Still Extremely Vulnerable
2019-07-10 23:22

Evil hypervisors can work out what apps are running, extract data from encrypted guests Five boffins from four US universities have explored AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology...

Epyc crypto flaw? AMD emits firmware fix for server processors after Googler smashes RAM encryption algorithms
2019-06-26 20:16

SEV code cracked to leak secret keys Microchip slinger AMD has issued a firmware patch to fix the encryption in its Secure Encrypted Virtualization technology (SEV), used to defend the memory of...

WD and AMD address memory scaling demand for in-memory computing workloads
2019-04-01 22:30

Western Digital announced the latest memory extension solution with AMD to meet the need of a growing number of customers to scale addressable memory sizes of existing servers for...