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Fun and frolics at the 2018 Pwnie Awards Black Hat The whizz kids who uncovered the Spectre and Meltdown data-leaking flaws in modern processors have scooped two Pwnie Awards – often referred to...
The July 2018 quarterly Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) is expected to set a new two-year high for total Oracle product patches.
Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty for new processor vulnerabilities that are related to Spectre variant one (CVE-2017-5753). The new Spectre-class variants are tracked as Spectre 1.1...
Chipzilla preps for quarterly public patch updates Exclusive Intel will today emit a dozen security alerts for its products and code – including details of another vulnerability within the Spectre...
The Pirate Bay seems to have returned to mining cryptocurrency in its visitors’ browsers without asking.
Conniving crypto creeps caught covertly concealing coin-crafting computer crime code Cryptocurrency-mining malware writers are dialing back their use of your compute cycles in order to avoid detection.…
How to extract 256-bit signing keys with 99.8% success Intel has, for now, no plans to specifically address a side-channel vulnerability in its processors that can be potentially exploited by...
Good thing too because Intel's planned chip changes may break Google's Retpoline A group of computer science researchers has proposed a way to overcome the security risk posed by speculative...
Intel and software vendors have started informing users about a new vulnerability involving side channel speculative execution that could be exploited by malicious actors to obtain sensitive...