Security News

Nvidia announces official “anti-cryptomining” software drivers
2021-02-22 21:00

RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and limit the hash rate, or cryptocurrency mining efficiency, by around 50 percent. To address the specific needs of Ethereum mining, we're announcing the NVIDIA CMP product line for professional mining.

Upcoming NVIDIA RTX 3060 purposely cripples mining performance
2021-02-18 15:57

NVIDIA is purposely crippling the Ethereum mining power of their upcoming GeForce RTX 3060 GPU by 50% to increase inventory for gamers. Today, NVIDIA announced the upcoming launch of the GeForce RTX 3060 on February 25th for $329, and has made a drastic step to make sure miners do not steal all of the released inventory.

NVIDIA GPU now supports Sunlight NexVisor, moving AI to the edge
2021-02-17 01:15

Sunlight announced NVIDIA GPU support for Sunlight NexVisor, its lightweight hypervisor providing near bare-metal performance with a compact footprint. Organizations can now unlock the full potential of hyperconverged infrastructure at the edge, maximizing the performance of demanding, GPU-accelerated workloads such as artificial intelligence running in edge environments.

Nvidia Squashes High-Severity Jetson DoS Flaw
2021-01-26 22:11

Nvidia has patched three vulnerabilities affecting its Jetson lineup, which is a series of embedded computing boards designed for machine-learning applications, in things like autonomous robots, drones and more. A successful exploit could potentially cripple any such gadgets leveraging the affected Jetson products, said Nvidia.

NVIDIA Gamers Face DoS, Data Loss from Shield TV Bugs
2021-01-20 20:45

NVIDIA has newly disclosed three security vulnerabilities in the NVIDIA Shield TV, which could allow denial of service, escalation of privileges and data loss. The NVIDIA Shield TV is a set-top gadget that acts as a hub for the smart home, streams PC games from a gaming PC to a TV; and allows local and online media playback and streaming.

NVIDIA Ships Patches for High-Severity Security Flaws
2021-01-08 20:09

A total of six security flaws were patched in the NVIDIA GPU display driver, all of them affecting the kernel mode layer. Also leading to denial of service are the next two flaws addressed with this set of patches, namely CVE‑2021‑1053 and CVE‑2021‑1054, NVIDIA explains in an advisory.

NVIDIA fixes high severity flaws affecting Windows, Linux devices
2021-01-08 08:11

NVIDIA has released security updates to address six security vulnerabilities found in Windows and Linux GPU display drivers, as well as ten additional flaws affecting the NVIDIA Virtual GPU management software. NVIDIA has addressed the security issues in all affected software products and platforms with the exception of those tracked as CVE‑2021‑1052, CVE‑2021‑1053, and CVE‑2021‑1056 impacting the Linux GPU Display Driver for Tesla GPUs which will receive an update driver version starting with January 18, 2021.

Nvidia Warns Windows Gamers of High-Severity Graphics Driver Flaws
2021-01-07 21:14

In all, Nvidia patched flaws tied to 16 CVEs across its graphics drivers and vGPU software, in its first security update of 2021. Nvidia, which makes gaming-friendly graphics processing units, on Thursday fixed a slew of high-severity flaws affecting its graphics driver.

Nvidia Warns Windows Gamers of GeForce NOW Flaw
2020-11-11 19:03

Nvidia is red-flagging a high-severity flaw in its GeForce NOW application software for Windows. An attacker on a local network can exploit the flaw in order to execute code or gain escalated privileges on affected devices.

NVIDIA fixes severe flaw in GeForce NOW cloud gaming service
2020-11-11 11:40

NVIDIA released a security update for the GeForce Now cloud gaming Windows app to address a vulnerability that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or escalate privileges on systems running unpatched software. NVIDIA's cloud gaming service can be used by customers who own NVIDIA Shield, desktop, or mobile devices via dedicated apps.