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

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...

Memory operations leak data that simplifies known attack techniques Further demonstrating the computational risks of looking into the future, boffins have found another way to abuse speculative...

Honey, I've shrunk the spyware and concealed it with speculative execution Spectre – the security vulnerabilities in modern CPUs' speculative execution engines that can be exploited to steal...

Or Acid Burn? Or Lord Nikon? Weak IT security may end in disaster at sea... one day Poorly maintained IT systems on container ships are leaving the vessels open to cyber-attack and catastrophe, it...

While browsers have got their act together, any other apps interpreting user-supplied code need to be aware of this Google security researchers have analyzed the impact of the data-leaking Spectre...

E-waste partly to blame for proliferation of deceptively marketed silicon Rogelio Vasquez, the owner of California-based PRB Logics Corporation, has pleaded guilty to selling fake branded...

A Washington State University research team has uncovered significant and previously unknown vulnerabilities in high-performance computer chips that could lead to failures in modern electronics....

Firm Says Audit 'Lays to Rest the Unwarranted Accusations'Super Micro says a third-party audit of recent and older motherboards has not turned up evidence of a spying chip as alleged in an...

Yeah, we've patched that one, adds Cisco Texas Instruments has rather feebly slapped down infosec researchers' findings on a so-called Bleedingbit Bluetooth Low Energy vulnerability after a more...