Security News

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...

Intel Patches Security Flaws in Processor Diagnostic Tool
2018-07-09 15:12

Intel has updated its Processor Diagnostic Tool to address vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution and escalation of privileges. read more

Window Snyder Joins Intel as Chief Software Security Officer
2018-06-26 07:23

Intel on Monday announced that Window Snyder has joined the company’s Software and Services Group as chief software security officer, vice president and general manager of the Intel Platform...