Security News

Systems-on-a-chip are a huge, unaudited attack surface, says Project Zero's Wi?Fi attack man (The Register)
2017-04-12 01:33

iPhone, Android hit by Broadcom Wi-Fi chip bugs: Now Apple, Google plug flaws (ZDNet)
2017-04-05 11:48

Millions Of Smartphones Using Broadcom Wi-Fi Chip Can Be Hacked Over-the-Air (The Hackers News)
2017-04-05 03:36

Millions of smartphones and smart gadgets, including Apple iOS and many Android handsets from various manufacturers, equipped with Broadcom Wifi chips are vulnerable to over-the-air hijacking...

Blocking Windows 7, 8.1 updates for Kaby Lake, Ryzen chips appears imminent (ArsTechnica)
2017-03-16 22:45

It looks like a policy announced a year ago is going to kick in.

Google Cloud unveils its custom security chip, new security features (ZDNet)
2017-03-09 19:56

Friday Squid Blogging: Will Fish and Chips Become Squid and Chips? (Schneier on Security)
2016-12-30 22:06

BBC.com reports that squid are proliferating around the North Sea, and speculates that they will become an increasingly common British dinner. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...

Researchers Question Security in AMD’s Upcoming Zen Chips (Threatpost)
2016-12-08 18:22

Two German researchers are calling into question the security afforded by AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization feature debuting in the chip maker's upcoming Zen server chips.

Boffins use Intel chip exploit to run rings around software defences (The Register)
2016-10-20 17:06

Researchers bypass ASLR by exploiting flaw in Intel chip (Help Net Security)
2016-10-19 22:03

Researchers have found a design flaw in the branch predictor, a component of Intel’s Haswell processor, and have exploited it to bypass ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization). What is ASLR?...

Flaw in Intel chips could make malware attacks more potent (ArsTechnica)
2016-10-19 11:36