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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...

Another Meltdown, Spectre scare: Data-blabbing holes continue to haunt Intel, AMD, Arm
2018-11-14 21:38

CPU slingers insist existing defenses will stop attacks – but eggheads disagree Computer security researchers have uncovered yet another set of transient execution attacks on modern CPUs that...

7 New Meltdown and Spectre-type CPU Flaws Affect Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs
2018-11-14 15:33

Disclosed earlier this year, potentially dangerous Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that affected a large family of modern processors proven that speculative execution attacks can be exploited...

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...