Security News

New side-channel leak: Boffins bash operating system page caches until they spill secrets
2019-01-05 01:30

Novel data-siphoning attack is hardware agnostic Some of the computer security boffins who revealed last year's data-leaking speculative-execution holes have identified yet another side-channel...

Week in review: VirtualBox 0day, GPU side channel attacks, vulnerable self-encrypting SSDs
2018-11-11 18:41

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Five key considerations when developing a Security Operations Center Organizations should start with the following...

GPU side channel attacks can enable spying on web activity, password stealing
2018-11-06 07:54

Computer scientists at the University of California, Riverside have revealed for the first time how easily attackers can use a computer’s graphics processing unit, or GPU, to spy on web activity,...

New Side-Channel Vulnerability Leaks Sensitive Data From Intel Chips
2018-11-05 18:20

A newly revealed side-channel attack can leak encrypted data from Intel microprocessors that use a Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) architecture. read more

PortSmash Side-Channel Attack Siphons Data From Intel, Other CPUs
2018-11-05 17:56

An exploit was released for a flaw existing in a process in CPUs called Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT).

ICS Devices Vulnerable to Side-Channel Attacks: Researcher
2018-11-05 10:35

Side-channel attacks can pose a serious threat to industrial control systems (ICS), a researcher warned last month at SecurityWeek’s ICS Cyber Security Conference in Atlanta, GA. read more

Side-Channel Attack Allows Remote Listener to ‘Hear’ On-Screen Images
2018-08-27 20:49

The contents of the user’s screen can be gleaned through video or VoIP calls, or voice-operated virtual assistants, like Amazon Alexa.

Side-Channel PoC Attack Lifts Private RSA Keys from Mobile Phones
2018-08-20 20:42

Researchers launched a Proof-of-Concept attack on two Android mobile phones and an embedded system board.

Foreshadow Attacks — 3 New Intel CPU Side-Channel Flaws Discovered
2018-08-15 08:03

2018 has been quite a tough year for Intel. While the chip-maker giant is still dealing with Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities, yet another major speculative execution flaw has been...

Black Hat 2018: Mixed Signal Microcontrollers Open to Side-Channel Attacks
2018-08-08 20:30

In mixed-design radio chips the processor’s activity leaks into the analog portion of the chip - and is broadcast as output.