Security News

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...

SWAPGS Attack — New Speculative Execution Flaw Affects All Modern Intel CPUs
2019-08-06 20:03

A new variant of the Spectre (Variant 1) side-channel vulnerability has been discovered that affects modern Intel CPUs which leverage speculative-execution, and some AMD processors as well,...

Intel’s smartphone modem business to be acquired by Apple
2019-07-29 00:00

Intel and Apple have signed an agreement for Apple to acquire the majority of Intel’s smartphone modem business. Approximately 2,200 Intel employees will join Apple, along with intellectual...