Security News

Week in review: New Intel CPU vulnerabilities, SharePoint servers under attack
2019-05-19 17:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: High-risk vulnerability in Cisco’s secure boot process impacts millions of devices Red Balloon Security has discovered...

New Class of CPU Flaws Affect Almost Every Intel Processor Since 2011
2019-05-14 20:33

Academic researchers today disclosed details of the newest class of speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel processors that impacts all modern chips, including the chips used...

Intel CPUs Impacted By New Class of Spectre-Like Attacks
2019-05-14 18:01

Intel has disclosed a new class of speculative execution side channel attacks.

Intel Adds Hardware Shield to New 8th Gen Intel Core vPro Mobile CPUs
2019-04-16 14:20

Intel on Tuesday announced its new 8th Gen Intel Core vPro mobile processors. In addition to improved performance, longer battery life, and support for the faster Wi-Fi 6, the CPUs bring new...

SPOILER alert, literally: Intel CPUs afflicted with simple data-spewing spec-exec vulnerability
2019-03-05 06:34

'Leakage ... is visible in all Intel generations starting from first-gen Core CPUs' Updated Further demonstrating the computational risks of looking into the future, boffins have found another way...

'This collaboration is absolutely critical going forward'... One positive thing about Meltdown CPU hole? At least it put aside tech rivalries...
2019-02-15 07:12

Execs, experts hope this cooperation continues to hold for the next big bug A panel of eggheads from Intel, the US government, and academia held court this week to figure how they can keep the...

In case you're not already sick of Spectre... Boffins demo Speculator tool for sniffing out data-leaking CPU holes
2018-12-07 23:59

First proof-of-concept, SplitSpectre, requires fewer instructions in victim Analysis You've patched your Intel, AMD, Power, and Arm gear to crush those pesky data-leaking speculative execution...

Linux kernel Spectre V2 defense fingered for massively slowing down unlucky apps on Intel Hyper-Thread CPUs
2018-11-20 01:34

This is on by default? 'Yikes' says Chipzilla techie Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has voiced support for a kernel patch that limits a previously deployed defense against Spectre Variant 2, a...

7 New Meltdown and Spectre-type CPU Flaws Affect Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs
2018-11-14 15:33

Disclosed earlier this year, potentially dangerous Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that affected a large family of modern processors proven that speculative execution attacks can be exploited...

PortSmash Side-Channel Attack Siphons Data From Intel, Other CPUs
2018-11-05 17:56

An exploit was released for a flaw existing in a process in CPUs called Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT).