Security News

New Spectre (Variant 4) CPU Flaw Discovered—Intel, ARM, AMD Affected
2018-05-22 08:33

Security researchers from Microsoft and Google have discovered a fourth variant of the data-leaking Meltdown-Spectre security flaws impacting modern CPUs in millions of computers, including those...

Major OS Players Misinterpret Intel Docs, and Now Kernels Can Be Hijacked
2018-05-10 15:37

Apple, Microsoft, Red Hat and others have built an uncannily similar privilege escalation flaw into their Intel-based products.

Misinterpretation of Intel Docs Leads to Flaw in Hypervisors, OSs
2018-05-09 13:54

The developers of several major operating systems and hypervisors misinterpreted documentation from Intel and introduced a potentially serious vulnerability to their products. read more

Every major OS maker misread Intel's docs. Now their kernels can be hijacked or crashed
2018-05-09 06:53

Grab those patches while Chipzilla updates its manuals Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, and some implementations of Xen have a design flaw that could allow attackers to, at best, crash Intel and...

8 New Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities (Spectre-NG) Found in Intel CPUs
2018-05-05 08:33

A team of security researchers has reportedly discovered a total of eight new "Spectre-class" vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs, which also affect at least a small number of ARM processors and may...

Report: Intel Facing New Spectre-Like Security Flaws
2018-05-04 20:38

Intel may be facing as many as eight new Spectre-level vulnerabilities in its chips, a German magazine alleges.

Intel Working on Patches for 8 New Spectre-Like Flaws: Report
2018-05-04 12:32

Researchers have discovered a total of eight new Spectre-like vulnerabilities, including flaws that may be more serious and easier to exploit, according to German magazine c’t. read more

Fresh crop of Spectre flaws haunting Intel
2018-05-03 23:59

Chipzilla checking fresh set of CVEs in chip side-channel flaw Researchers have unearthed a fresh new set of ways attackers could potentially target the Spectre CPU vulnerabilities.…

LogicHub: Automating SOC Intel
2018-05-02 21:02

Co-Founder Monica Jain on the Value of Capturing Tribal KnowledgeMonica Jain has a lot of experience in security operations centers, and she knows much of the tribal knowledge there is not...

Microsoft Issues More Spectre Updates For Intel CPUs
2018-04-26 19:39

Microsoft has released new Spectre mitigations for Windows 10, which include Intel microcode fixes for CPUs running on Windows.