Security News

Malware Exploiting Spectre, Meltdown Flaws Emerges
2018-01-31 16:52

Researchers have discovered more than 130 malware samples designed to exploit the recently disclosed Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities. While a majority of the samples appear to be in the...

New AMD Processors to Include Protections for Spectre-like Exploits
2018-01-31 15:14

AMD’s new Zen 2 and future processors will include protections against Spectre and other similar exploits, the tech giant revealed on Tuesday as it announced its earnings for 2017. read more

New Windows patch disables Intel’s bad Spectre microcode fix
2018-01-29 17:08

Registry keys can also be used to selectively enable or disable the microcode fix.

Microsoft Disables Spectre Mitigations Due to Instability
2018-01-29 06:07

Out-of-band Windows updates released by Microsoft over the weekend disable mitigations for one of the Spectre attack variants as they can cause systems to become unstable. read more

Week in review: Intel testing new Spectre fixes, ICO protection, cybercrooks abusing travel industry
2018-01-29 03:06

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, and whitepapers: British teenager hacked top ranking US officials using social engineering How did British teenager Kane...

Intel Working on CPUs With Meltdown, Spectre Protections
2018-01-26 18:10

Intel is working on CPUs that will include built-in protections against the notorious Meltdown and Spectre attacks, CEO Brian Krzanich revealed on Thursday during a conference call discussing the...

The Effects of the Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerabilities
2018-01-26 12:12

On January 3, the world learned about a series of major security vulnerabilities in modern microprocessors. Called Spectre and Meltdown, these vulnerabilities were discovered by several different...

Intel Halts Spectre/Meltdown Patching for Broadwell and Haswell Systems
2018-01-23 16:22

Widespread reports of reboot issues on some Intel systems force the chip giant to pump the brakes on rolling out patches for side-channel vulnerabilities.

Intel testing new Spectre fixes, tells everyone to hold off on deploying current firmware updates
2018-01-23 16:17

Shortly after Red Hat stopped providing microcode to address variant 2 (branch target injection) of the Spectre attack, Intel has advised OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers,...

Risks to ICS Environments From Spectre and Meltdown Attacks
2018-01-23 13:41

The recently disclosed Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, which affect hardware running in the majority of the world’s computing devices have made headlines recently. The list of at risk...