Bromium Response: Intel CPU Design Flaw Creates Work for Everyone

The design flaw has been in existence for the last decade and does not affect Bromium. Operating system vendors are the only ones who can remediate the vulnerability. The Microsoft patch – out today – requires Bromium customers to upgrade b… Continue reading Bromium Response: Intel CPU Design Flaw Creates Work for Everyone

Multiple Intel Processors Generations Hit by Serious Security Flaw

By Waqas
Almost all Intel Processors Generations are impacted by the flaw while Intel
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Opera browser updated to stop crypto-currency mining

The last year has seen a rise in the number of websites hogging visitor’s CPU and browser resources by surreptitiously mining for cryptocurrencies while you surf. Sites like Pirate Bay have found themselves in hot water after visitors discovered … Continue reading Opera browser updated to stop crypto-currency mining

Discrete log problem – Presume adversary Eve has the public key, how can Eve generate all possible private keys?

Presume adversary Eve has the public key, x_pub for the below encryption scheme;

g**x_priv mod p = h

Where

g is a generator, and is a positive integer
p is an unknown prime
x_priv is the unknown private key
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Huge 74181 is a Classic ALU You Can Actually Understand

You can no longer buy a brand-new 74181, they’ve been out of production for years. All is not lost though, for [Dave’s Dev Lab] have created a facsimile of one on a printed circuit board, using modern single-gate 74-series chips.

Why on earth would you want an oversized replica of an outdated logic chip from nearly five decades ago, we hear you ask? The answer lies in education. If you were to embark on learning about the internals of a microprocessor by taking a modern example such as the one that powers the device on which you are reading this, …read more

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(Nearly) All Your Computers Run MINIX

Are you reading this on a machine running a GNU/Linux distribution? A Windows machine? Or perhaps an Apple OS? It doesn’t really matter, because your computer is probably running MINIX anyway.

There once was a time when microprocessors were relatively straightforward devices, capable of being understood more or less in their entirety by a single engineer without especially God-like skills. They had buses upon which hung peripherals, and for code to run on them, one of those peripherals had better supply it.

A modern high-end processor is a complex multicore marvel of technological achievement, so labyrinthine in fact that unlike …read more

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