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A team of security researchers has discovered another serious side-channel vulnerability in Intel CPUs that could allow an attacker to sniff out sensitive protected data, like passwords and cryptographic keys, from other processes running in the same C… Continue reading New Intel CPU Flaw Exploits Hyper-Threading to Steal Encrypted Data
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 revealed in Intel’s Core and Xeon lines of processors th… Continue reading Foreshadow Attacks — 3 New Intel CPU Side-Channel Flaws Discovered
A team of security researchers has discovered a new Spectre attack that can be launched over the network, unlike all other Spectre variants that require some form of local code execution on the target system.
Dubbed “NetSpectre,” the new remote side-c… Continue reading NetSpectre — New Remote Spectre Attack Steals Data Over the Network
Security-oriented BSD operating system OpenBSD has decided to disable support for Intel’s hyper-threading performance-boosting feature, citing security concerns over Spectre-style timing attacks.
Introduced in 2002, Hyper-threading is Intel’s implemen… Continue reading OpenBSD Disables Intel Hyper-Threading to Prevent Spectre-Class Attacks
Hell Yeah! Another security vulnerability has been discovered in Intel chips that affects the processor’s speculative execution technology—like Specter and Meltdown—and could potentially be exploited to access sensitive information, including encryptio… Continue reading New ‘Lazy FP State Restore’ Vulnerability Found in All Modern Intel CPUs
A team of security researchers has reportedly discovered a total of eight new “Spectre-class” vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs, which also affect at least a small number of ARM processors and may impact AMD processor architecture as well.
Dubbed Spectre-… Continue reading 8 New Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities (Spectre-NG) Found in Intel CPUs
Global chip-maker Intel on Tuesday announced two new technologies—Threat Detection Technology (TDT) and Security Essentials—that not only offer hardware-based built-in security features across Intel processors but also improve threat detection without … Continue reading Intel Processors Now Allows Antivirus to Use Built-in GPUs for Malware Scanning
As speculated by the researcher who disclosed Meltdown and Spectre flaws in Intel processors, some of the Intel processors will not receive patches for the Spectre (variant 2) side-channel analysis attack
In a recent microcode revision guidance (PDF),… Continue reading Intel Admits It Won’t Be Possible to Fix Spectre (V2) Flaw in Some Processors
In a major blow to Intel, Apple is reportedly planning to use its custom-designed ARM chips in Mac computers starting as early as 2020, ultimately replacing the Intel processors running on its desktop and laptop hardware.
The company makes its own A-s… Continue reading Apple Plans to Replace Intel Chips in Macs with its Custom Designed CPUs
After leaving million of devices at risk of hacking and then rolling out broken patches, Intel has now released a new batch of security patches only for its Skylake processors to address one of the Spectre vulnerabilities (Variant 2).
For those unawar… Continue reading Intel Releases New Spectre Patch Update for Skylake Processors