Security News

Shhh! Microsoft, Intel, Google and more sign up to the Confidential Computing Consortium
2019-08-22 12:15

You can make your own joke about foxes and hen houses... The Linux Foundation has signed up the likes of Microsoft and Google for its Confidential Computing Consortium, a group with the laudable...

Threat Intel for a Global Economy
2019-08-20 13:33

NTT Data's Jaime Chanaga on the Business Impact of CyberthreatsThe World Economic Forum recently identified "cyberattacks and data integrity concerns crippling large parts of the internet" as one...

Intel Patches High-Severity Flaws in Tools, NUC Firmware
2019-08-15 16:09

Some of the updates released by Intel as part of the August 2019 Patch Tuesday fix high-severity vulnerabilities in NUC firmware, the Processor Identification Utility, and the Computing...

Intel: Listen up, you NUC-leheads! Mini PCs and compute sticks just got a major security fix
2019-08-14 21:59

Chipzilla patches firmware, drivers, SDKs Hot on the heels of Patch Tuesday fixes from Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and SAP, Intel has dropped its monthly security bundle to address a series of seven...

Windows Users at Risk From High-Severity Intel Software Flaw
2019-08-14 15:00

Overall, Intel stomped out three high-severity vulnerabilities and five medium-severity flaws.

Capsule8 announces multimillion-dollar investment from Intel Capital
2019-08-07 18:47

Capsule8 announced a multimillion-dollar investment from Intel Capital. The rapidly growing company will apply the funds to drive a range of sales, marketing, product development and...

Millions of Devices With Intel CPUs Exposed to SWAPGS Attack
2019-08-07 10:02

Researchers have discovered yet another speculative execution vulnerability that can allow attackers to steal potentially sensitive information from devices with Intel processors. read more

SWAPGS Attack: A new Spectre haunts machines with Intel CPUs
2019-08-06 23:10

Bitdefender researchers have uncovered yet another viable speculative execution side-channel attack that can be leveraged against Intel CPUs and the computers running on them. The SWAPGS Attack,...

Deja-wooo-oooh! Intel chips running Windows potentially vulnerable to scary Spectre variant
2019-08-06 23:01

SWAPGS can be abused to siphon sensitive secrets from kernel memory, patches already available Spectre – a family of data-leaking side-channel vulnerabilities arising from speculative execution...

Deja-woooo: Intel, AMD chips running Windows potentially vulnerable to scary Spectre variant
2019-08-06 23:01

SWAPGS attack can leak sensitive secrets from kernel memory, patches already available Spectre – a family of data-leaking side-channel vulnerabilities arising from speculative execution that was...