Security News

Another Spectre CPU vulnerability among Intel's dirty dozen of security bug alerts today
2018-07-10 17:00

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 is plundering your CPU for cryptocash, again
2018-07-06 12:17

The Pirate Bay seems to have returned to mining cryptocurrency in its visitors’ browsers without asking.

How polite: Fun-bucks coin miners graciously ease off CPU pounding
2018-06-29 00:33

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.…

Meet TLBleed: A crypto-key-leaking CPU attack that Intel says we shouldn't worry about
2018-06-22 22:44

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...

Boffins offer to make speculative execution great again with Spectre-Meltdown CPU fix
2018-06-16 01:09

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...

Meltdown-Like 'LazyFP' Vulnerability Impacts Intel CPUs
2018-06-14 14:48

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...

New 'Lazy FP State Restore' Vulnerability Found in All Modern Intel CPUs
2018-06-14 08:03

Hell Yeah! Another security vulnerability has been discovered in Intel chips that affects the processor's speculative execution technology—like Specter and Meltdown—and could potentially be...

How an URL shortener allows malicious actors to hijack visitors’ CPU power
2018-05-23 19:25

URL shorteners are often used by malware peddlers and attackers to trick users into following a link they otherwise wouldn’t. But Coinhive’s URL shortener carries an added danger: your CPU power...

Researchers Say More Spectre-Related CPU Flaws On Horizon
2018-05-22 21:20

Yet another speculative execution side channel flaw has been disclosed in processors - and security experts warn that more may be out there.

New Spectre-like flaw found in CPUs using speculative execution
2018-05-22 20:13

A new flaw that can allow an attacker to obtain access to sensitive information on affected systems has been discovered in modern CPUs. CVE-2018-3639, discovered by independently by Google Project...