Security News

Chip Cards Fail to Reduce Credit Card Fraud in the US
2018-11-15 12:24

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...

U.S. Chip Cards Are Being Compromised in the Millions
2018-11-12 17:50

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.

New Side-Channel Vulnerability Leaks Sensitive Data From Intel Chips
2018-11-05 18:20

A newly revealed side-channel attack can leak encrypted data from Intel microprocessors that use a Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) architecture. read more

PortSmash attack steals secrets from Intel chips on the side
2018-11-05 11:46

Researchers have developed an exploit that uses a feature in Intel chips to steal secret cryptographic keys.

US Accuses China, Taiwan Firms With Stealing Secrets From Chip Giant Micron
2018-11-01 20:20

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

Two New Bluetooth Chip Flaws Expose Millions of Devices to Remote Attacks
2018-11-01 18:48

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...

Bluetooth Chip Flaws Expose Enterprises to Remote Attacks
2018-11-01 15:36

Millions of access points and other networking devices used by enterprises around the world may be exposed to remote attacks due to a couple of vulnerabilities discovered by researchers in...

Bleedingbit: Critical vulnerabilities in BLE chips expose millions of access points to attack
2018-11-01 15:00

Armis today announced the discovery of two critical vulnerabilities in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips made by Texas Instruments (TI) and used in Cisco, Meraki and Aruba wireless access points,...

IT Wi-Fi kit bit by TI chip slip-up
2018-11-01 15:00

BLEEDINGBIT patches hit to fix critical holes in enterprise network access points On Thursday, network equipment makers Aruba, Cisco, and Cisco-owned Meraki plan to patch two flaws in Bluetooth...

Super Micro to Customers: Chinese Spy Chips Story Is Wrong
2018-10-23 16:01

A Bloomberg article claiming that tiny chips were inserted in Super Micro Computer Inc. equipment “is wrong,” the California-based server manufacturer says. read more