Security News

Revealed: El Reg blew lid off Meltdown CPU bug before Intel told US govt – and how bitter tech rivals teamed up
2018-08-09 06:26

Panel spills beans on beans spilled Black Hat Next time you leave things to the last minute, remember this well.…

Intel Smart Sound Tech Vulnerable to Three High-Severity Bugs
2018-07-25 17:04

Intel patches three flaws that could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on impacted systems.

Intel Xeon workhorses boot evil maids out of the hotel: USB-based spying thwarted by fix
2018-07-25 06:32

The story behind the quietly patched CVE-2018-3652 Ex-Intel security dragons have breathed fresh fire into the old maxim: if someone has physical access to your machine, you're pwned.…

Spectre rises from the dead to bite Intel in the return stack buffer
2018-07-23 20:30

AMD, Arm chips may also have to deal with this seemingly invincible ghost in the machine Spectre, a class of vulnerabilities in the speculative execution mechanism employed in modern processor...

4 exploitable bugs plague Intel Management Engine: Patch now
2018-07-23 13:24

Some of the flaw require privileged access, but a buffer overflow vulnerability is fairly serious.

Indictment bombshell: 'Kremlin intel agents' hacked, leaked Hillary's emails same day Trump asked Russia for help
2018-07-13 19:13

Charges filed against dozen suspected Russian spies American prosecutors have accused 12 suspected Russian spies of hacking Democrat and Hillary Clinton campaign officials to leak their sensitive...

Two New Spectre-Class CPU Flaws Discovered—Intel Pays $100K Bounty
2018-07-11 11:48

Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty for new processor vulnerabilities that are related to Spectre variant one (CVE-2017-5753). The new Spectre-class variants are tracked as Spectre 1.1...

Intel Pays $100,000 Bounty for New Spectre Variants
2018-07-11 05:13

Researchers have discovered new variations of the Spectre attack and they received $100,000 from Intel through the company’s bug bounty program. The new flaws are variations of Spectre Variant 1...

Intel, Microsoft, Adobe release a swarm of bug fixes to ruin your week
2018-07-11 00:24

Massive patch dump with 112 fixes... and that's just for the Photoshop giant IT admins face a busy week ahead as Microsoft, Intel, and Adobe have issued bundles of scheduled security fixes...

Another Spectre CPU vulnerability among Intel's dirty dozen of security bug alerts today
2018-07-10 17:00

Chipzilla preps for quarterly public patch updates Exclusive Intel will today emit a dozen security alerts for its products and code – including details of another vulnerability within the Spectre...