Security News

Another Intel Chip Flaw
2019-05-16 14:28

Remember the Spectre and Meltdown attacks from last year? They were a new class of attacks against complex CPUs, finding subliminal channels in optimization techniques that allow hackers to steal...

Arm debuts eMRAM-enabled test chip and board on Samsung Foundry process technology
2019-05-16 02:00

At the Samsung Foundry Forum, Arm, in collaboration with Samsung Foundry, Cadence, and Sondrel, demonstrated the first 28nm fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) embedded MagnetoResistive...

ZombieLoad: New Class of Vulnerabilities Leak Data From Intel Chips
2019-05-14 20:31

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New speculative execution bug leaks data from Intel chips’ internal buffers
2019-05-14 18:10

Intel-specific vulnerability was found by researchers both inside and outside the company.

New Samsung Exynos Chip Secures IoT Devices With Short-Range Comms
2019-05-09 15:16

Samsung this week unveiled Exynos i T100, a new mobile system-on-chip (SoC) designed to enhance the security and reliability of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices that use short-range communication...

Unhackable? New chip makes the computer an unsolvable puzzle
2019-05-07 05:30

A new computer processor architecture that could usher in a future where computers proactively defend against threats, rendering the current electronic security model of bugs and patches obsolete,...

Qualcomm chips leak crypto data from secure execution environment
2019-04-25 10:47

A vulnerability in Qualcomm chips could be exploited by attackers to retrieve encryption keys and sensitive information from the chipsets’ secure execution environment, NCC Group researchers have...

Facebook user data used as bargaining chip, according to leaked docs
2019-04-18 11:56

Leaked internal docs used to claim "privacy was an afterthought" at Facebook

Algorithms can now find bugs in computer chips before they are made
2019-03-28 06:15

In early 2018, cybersecurity researchers discovered two security flaws they said were present in almost every high-end processor made and used by major companies. UPEC product development team (l...