Security News

US Says Ex-intel Official Defected to Iran, Revealed Secrets
2019-02-15 15:16

A former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence specialist who defected to Iran despite warnings from the FBI has been charged with revealing classified information to the Tehran government, including...

Intel SGX Can Be Abused to Hide Advanced Malware: Researchers
2019-02-13 10:19

A team of researchers has demonstrated that Intel’s SGX technology can be abused to hide an advanced and stealthy piece of malware that could allow attackers to steal data and conduct activities...

Researchers Implant "Protected" Malware On Intel SGX Enclaves
2019-02-13 10:03

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a way to hide malicious code in Intel SGX enclaves, a hardware-based memory encryption feature in modern processors that isolates sensitive code and data...

Researchers use Intel SGX to put malware beyond the reach of antivirus software
2019-02-12 20:54

Processor protects malware from attempts to inspect and analyze it.

Intel SGX 'safe' room easily trashed by white-hat hacking marauders: Enclave malware demo'd
2019-02-12 02:17

Rather handy for smuggling expensive zero-days onto targets and executing them Security researchers have found that Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) don't live up to their name. In fact,...

U.S. Intel Community: Russia, China Can Disrupt Critical Infrastructure
2019-01-30 07:16

Russia and China are capable of disrupting critical infrastructure in the United States, and Iran is not far behind, according to the Worldwide Threat Assessment made public by the U.S....

You think election meddling is bad now? Buckle up for 2020, US intel chief tells Congress
2019-01-30 01:44

Expect trolls, cyber attacks, and even deep fakes in next election Attacks intended to sway the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election are probably already underway, according to the...

Intel patches another security flaw in SGX technology
2019-01-16 12:19

Of the six advisories Intel released last week, the most interesting is a flaw discovered in the company’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX).

Intel's Software Guard caught asleep at its post: Patch out now for SGX give-me-admin hole
2019-01-14 21:41

Chipzilla adds to IT admins security update load While admins were busy wrangling with the mass of security patches from Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP last week, Intel slipped out a fix for a...

Intel Patches High-Severity Privilege-Escalation Bugs
2019-01-09 16:16

Overall, the chip giant patched five vulnerabilities across an array of its products.