Security News

Three more data-leaking security holes found in Intel chips as designers swap security for speed
2018-08-14 17:00

Apps, kernels, virtual machines, SGX, SMM at risk from attack Intel will today disclose three more vulnerabilities in its processors that can be exploited by malware and malicious virtual machines...

Intel finally emits Puma 1Gbps modem fixes – just as new ping-of-death bug emerges
2018-08-14 00:26

Network-throttling modem bug finally gets a write-up and CVE More than 18 months after the issue was first brought to light, Intel is still working to fix the problems caused by its buggy Puma...

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...