Security News
Microsoft has posted a root cause analysis of the multifactor authentication issue which hit a number of its customers worldwide last week. Here's what happened.
CPU slingers insist existing defenses will stop attacks – but eggheads disagree Computer security researchers have uncovered yet another set of transient execution attacks on modern CPUs that...
Back in January, we learned about a class of vulnerabilities against microprocessors that leverages various performance and efficiency shortcuts for attack. I wrote that the first two attacks...
A team of researchers has described seven new variants of the notorious Meltdown and Spectre attacks, and they claim some of these methods are not mitigated by existing patches, but Intel...
Experiments showed that processors from AMD, ARM, and Intel are affected.
Disclosed earlier this year, potentially dangerous Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that affected a large family of modern processors proven that speculative execution attacks can be exploited...
Systemic analysis reveals a range of new issues, and a need for new mitigations.
New Intel Coffee Lake CPUs offer hardware-based protections against some -but not all- Spectre and Meltdown variants.
Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphones are left open to hacking with microchip security flaw, according to research at the Black Hat conference.
