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Intel SGX Can Be Abused to Hide Advanced Malware: Researchers
2019-02-13 10:19

A team of researchers has demonstrated that Intel’s SGX technology can be abused to hide an advanced and stealthy piece of malware that could allow attackers to steal data and conduct activities...

Researchers Implant "Protected" Malware On Intel SGX Enclaves
2019-02-13 10:03

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a way to hide malicious code in Intel SGX enclaves, a hardware-based memory encryption feature in modern processors that isolates sensitive code and data...

Researchers use Intel SGX to put malware beyond the reach of antivirus software
2019-02-12 20:54

Processor protects malware from attempts to inspect and analyze it.

Intel SGX 'safe' room easily trashed by white-hat hacking marauders: Enclave malware demo'd
2019-02-12 02:17

Rather handy for smuggling expensive zero-days onto targets and executing them Security researchers have found that Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) don't live up to their name. In fact,...

Intel patches another security flaw in SGX technology
2019-01-16 12:19

Of the six advisories Intel released last week, the most interesting is a flaw discovered in the company’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX).

Intel's Software Guard caught asleep at its post: Patch out now for SGX give-me-admin hole
2019-01-14 21:41

Chipzilla adds to IT admins security update load While admins were busy wrangling with the mass of security patches from Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP last week, Intel slipped out a fix for a...

Speculation Attack Against Intel's SGX
2018-08-16 16:43

Another speculative-execution attack against Intel's SGX. At a high level, SGX is a new feature in modern Intel CPUs which allows computers to protect users' data even if the entire system falls...

Foreshadow and Intel SGX software attestation: 'The whole trust model collapses'
2018-08-15 09:42

El Reg talks to Dr Yuval Yarom about Intel's memory leaking catastrophe Interview In the wake of yet another collection of Intel bugs, The Register had the chance to speak to Foreshadow...

Intel’s SGX blown wide open by, you guessed it, a speculative execution attack
2018-08-14 19:18

Speculative execution attacks truly are the gift that keeps on giving.

At last, a use for Intel's SGX – locking AI and blockchain, says Intel
2018-06-20 16:00

Bias-enabling algorithms and smart contract tech no one quite trusts now easier to secure At the Cyber Week security conference in Israel on Tuesday, chip giant Intel plans to discuss how it is...