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Several Siemens Devices Affected by Intel MDS Vulnerabilities
2019-07-09 13:24

Siemens informed customers on Tuesday that several of its products are affected by the Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities impacting a majority of the Intel processors made in...

Chrome OS 75 Adds More Mitigations for Intel MDS Flaws
2019-06-27 11:35

Chrome OS version 75, which Google released on Wednesday in the stable channel, adds more mitigations for recently disclosed Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities affecting most...

MDS vulnerabilities lead Chrome OS 74 to disable hyper-threading
2019-05-16 14:52

Hyper-Threading, Intel's implementation of symmetric multithreading (SMT) can be exploited using the newly-disclosed MDS vulnerabilities, like Fallout and ZombieLoad.

Intel MDS attack mitigation: An overview
2019-05-16 12:08

Intel has revealed on Tuesday that some of its CPUs are vulnerable to a number of new speculative execution attacks that may allow attackers to stealing sensitive data and keys/passwords....

Why MDS vulnerabilities present a threat as serious as Spectre and Meltdown
2019-05-15 18:00

Microarchitectural Data Sampling are CPU side-channel vulnerabilities that allow attackers to view in-flight data from CPU-internal buffers. Learn more about MDS attacks in this comprehensive guide.

NX-OS-hit! Got Cisco Nexus and MDS 9000 switches? Then you've got patching to do, too
2019-03-07 13:39

Oof. Crop of vulns include remote code execution as root Cisco has published patches for a plethora of problems with its products, including vulns that could trigger denial-of-service conditions –...