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By Waqas
The bug bounty program will remain open until December 31st, 2018.
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Security community takes a critical look at CTS-Labs’ disclosure of vulnerabilities in AMD vulnerabilities found in EPYC servers, Ryzen workstationsm and Ryzen mobile offerings. Continue reading Hyperbole Swirls Around AMD Processor Security Threat
Security researchers announced a series of 13 vulnerabilities within AMD’s RYZEN and EPYC processors that could make some data breaches even worse. Continue reading Researchers Say AMD Processors Have Serious Vulnerabilities and Backdoors
By Waqas
Recently, a French startup Quarnot introduced a cryptomining heater that
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Intel is fighting 32 class action lawsuits related to major security vulnerabilities in its chips that were disclosed in January, the company said in an annual filing with to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. The filing says that as of Feb. 15, there are 30 class action lawsuits on behalf of customers and two on behalf of shareholders, all resulting from the nature of the disclosure of Meltdown and Spectre. About six months elapsed from the flaws’ discovery in June until their public disclosure. The company says the lawsuits are filed in U.S. federal and state courts and in some cases courts in other countries. Meltdown and Spectre are deep-rooted flaws in computer central processing units that can allow hackers to steal sensitive information undetected. The flaws are present in CPU chips dating back to the mid-1990s. The customer lawsuits “generally claim to have been harmed by Intel’s actions and/or […]
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Simon Sharwood for The Register: Intel adopts Orwellian irony with call for fast Meltdown-Spectre action after slow patch delivery – For now, have some code that won’t crash Skylakes and stay close to your Telescreens. He observes… Continue reading Intel’s slow progress towards microcode updates
It might look like a random pile of wires to some, but it is far from random: [Paulo Constantino] built this 8-bit CPU himself from scratch. He built his remarkable creation using wires and 74HC shift register chips, plus a selection of LEDs to show the various registers.
Running at a maximum of 5MHz, it has an 8-bit data and address bus, although the latter can be expanded to 16 bits. It’s not mining Bitcoin (yet), but it can do things like play the Mario theme. His latest addition is the addition of the ability to write data out to …read more
By Waqas
Hackers could be close to developing malware that exploits flaws,
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I’m getting more and more interested in cache side-channel atttacks, but while for stack/heap vulnerabilities you can better understand the problem via inspecting memory using a debugger I can’t find a corresponding tool for … Continue reading How can I read the content of CPU caches?
Dueling browsers, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, have patched bugs and beefed up security. Continue reading Firefox, Chrome Patch Vulnerabilities, Add Security Features