Security News

Intel Driver Vulnerability Can Give Attackers Deep Access to a Device
2019-11-13 16:23

A vulnerability affecting a powerful and widely used driver from Intel can give malicious actors deep access to a device, firmware security company Eclypsium warns. read more

New ZombieLoad v2 Attack Affects Intel's Latest Cascade Lake CPUs
2019-11-13 15:48

Zombieload is back. This time a new variant (v2) of the data-leaking side-channel vulnerability also affects the most recent Intel CPUs, including the latest Cascade Lake, which are otherwise...

Newer Intel CPUs Vulnerable to Variant 2 of ZombieLoad Attack
2019-11-13 12:49

Researchers have disclosed a new variant of the attack method dubbed ZombieLoad, which appears to also impact Intel CPUs that are not affected by the first variant of ZombieLoad. read more

Intel releases updates to plug TPM-FAIL flaws, foil ZombieLoad v2 attacks
2019-11-13 12:15

Intel’s Patch Tuesday releases are rarely so salient as those pushed out this month: the semiconductor chip manufacturer has patched a slew of high-profile vulnerabilities in their chips and...

Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine
2019-11-12 19:07

The issue is in an Intel chip used for remote management.

True to its name, Intel ZombieLoad processor attack comes crawling back with new variant
2019-11-12 18:02

Boffins say even the latest chips could allow data to be leaked between CPU cores Intel is once again moving to patch its CPU microcode following the revelation of yet another data-leaking...

Don't miss this patch: Bad Intel drivers give hackers a backdoor to the Windows kernel
2019-11-12 18:00

Alarm raised over more holes in third-party low-level code Nearly three months after infosec biz Eclypsium highlighted widespread security weaknesses in third-party Windows hardware drivers, you...

Whitepaper: Busting the myth that more threat intel feeds lead to better security
2019-10-31 04:00

It’s a common misconception that a large quantity of threat intelligence feeds leads to more effective security. Unfortunately, threat feed overindulgence can lead to confusion, disorganization,...

Running on Intel? If you want security, disable hyper-threading, says Linux kernel maintainer
2019-10-29 15:17

Speculative execution bugs will be with us for a very long time Linux kernel dev Greg Kroah-Hartman reckons Intel Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) - also known as hyper-threading - should be...

German 5G Rules Avoid Huawei Ban; US Warns on Intel Sharing
2019-10-16 16:53

Germany released draft security guidelines on Tuesday for next generation wireless networks that stopped short of banning Huawei, as the U.S. warned again it would reconsider intelligence sharing...