Security News

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...

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.