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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...
A new study finds that credit card fraud has not declined since the introduction of chip cards in the US. The majority of stolen card information comes from hacked point-of-sale terminals. The...
A full 60 million U.S. cards were compromised in the past 12 months. While 93 percent of those were EMV chip-enabled, merchants continued to use mag stripes.
A newly revealed side-channel attack can leak encrypted data from Intel microprocessors that use a Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) architecture. read more
Researchers have developed an exploit that uses a feature in Intel chips to steal secret cryptographic keys.
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced charges Thursday against Chinese and Taiwan companies for theft of an estimate $8.75 billion worth of trade secrets from US semiconductor giant Micron. read more
Security researchers have unveiled details of two critical vulnerabilities in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips embedded in millions of access points and networking devices used by enterprises...