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U.S. chip-making giant Intel Corp. has acknowledged a website hack and premature data disclosure forced the early release of its earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2020. The discovery led to a decision by Intel to release the financial results six minutes before the market closed.

Dynatrace announced that its Application Security Module now directly links the vulnerabilities it identifies in real time in production and pre-production environments to the Snyk Intel database of open source vulnerabilities to facilitate faster and easier remediation by developers. Dynatrace Application Security, the newest module in Dynatrace's all-in-one Software Intelligence Platform, is optimized for Kubernetes architectures and DevSecOps approaches.

To help people navigate through this extraordinary time, Intel introduced new processors for business, education, mobile and gaming computing platforms - all designed to offer the premium PC experiences people deserve, with the most choices and no limits. For business, Intel introduced the 11th Gen Intel vPro platform, an unrivaled business platform delivering the industry's highest performance and world's most comprehensive hardware-based security.

Intel and Cybereason have partnered to build anti-ransomware defenses into the chipmaker's newly announced 11th generation Core vPro business-class processors. The hardware-based security enhancements are baked into Intel's vPro platform via its Hardware Shield and Threat Detection Technology, enabling profiling and detection of ransomware and other threats that have an impact on the CPU performance.

At the virtual Consumer Electronics Show on Monday, chipmaker Intel announced CPU-based ransomware detection capabilities have been fitted directly into the Intel vPro platform. Most traditional detection solutions, Intel suggests, are reactionary, not to mention the fact that ransomware operators use various means to evade detection.

Intel announced today at CES 2021 that they have added hardware-based ransomware detection to their newly announced 11th generation Core vPro business-class processors. These hardware-based detections are accomplished using Intel Threat Detection Technology and Hardware Shield that run directly on the CPU underneath the operating system and firmware layers.

Intel introduced Intel RealSense ID, an on-device solution that combines an active depth sensor with a specialized neural network designed to deliver secure, accurate and user-aware facial authentication. "Intel RealSense ID combines purpose-built hardware and software with a dedicated neural network designed to deliver a secure facial authentication platform that users can trust," said Sagi Ben Moshe, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of Emerging Growth and Incubation.

Intel has gingerly dipped a toe into the face-based authentication market with the launch of its RealSense ID product. In terms of security, Chipzilla has made some bold claims, stating RealSense ID has a one-in-one-million false acceptance rate and can withstand the usual attempts to circumvent face-based authentication tools, like masks and photographs, with - according to its RealSense webpage - a spoof acceptance rate of less than 0.1 per cent.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has accused Intel of preventing widespread use of error-correcting memory and being "Instrumental in killing the whole ECC industry with its horribly bad market segmentation." Cost is a factor but what riles Torvalds is that Intel has made ECC support a feature of its Xeon range, aimed at servers and high-end workstations, and does not support it in other ranges such as the Core series.

The Pay2Key ransomware group on Sunday posted what appear to be details of internal files obtained from Habana Labs, an Israel-based chip startup acquired a year ago by Intel. The hacking group, which has been linked to Iranians by security firm Check Point, published a screenshot of source code credited to Habana Labs via Twitter, alongside a link to a Tor Browser-accessible.