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It appears there is no end in sight to the hardware level security vulnerabilities in Intel processors, as well as to the endless ‘performance killing’ patches that resolve them.
Modern Intel CPUs have now been found vulnerable to a new attack that in… Continue reading LVI Attacks: New Intel CPU Vulnerability Puts Data Centers At Risk
All Intel processors released in the past 5 years contain an unpatchable vulnerability that could allow hackers to compromise almost every hardware-enabled security technology that are otherwise designed to shield sensitive data of users even when a sy… Continue reading This Unpatchable Flaw Affects All Intel CPUs Released in Last 5 Years
Another month, another speculative execution vulnerability found in Intel processors.
If your computer is running any modern Intel CPU built before October 2018, it’s likely vulnerable to a newly discovered hardware issue that could allow attackers to… Continue reading New ‘CacheOut’ Attack Leaks Data from Intel CPUs, VMs and SGX Enclave
Zombieload is back.
This time a new variant (v2) of the data-leaking side-channel vulnerability also affects the most recent Intel CPUs, including the latest Cascade Lake, which are otherwise resistant against attacks like Meltdown, Foreshadow and oth… Continue reading New ZombieLoad v2 Attack Affects Intel’s Latest Cascade Lake CPUs
Unlike previous side-channel vulnerabilities disclosed in Intel CPUs, researchers have discovered a new flaw that can be exploited remotely over the network without requiring an attacker to have physical access or any malware installed on a targeted co… Continue reading NetCAT: New Attack Lets Hackers Remotely Steal Data From Intel CPUs
A new variant of the Spectre (Variant 1) side-channel vulnerability has been discovered that affects all modern Intel CPUs, and probably some AMD processors as well, which leverage speculative execution for high performance, Microsoft and Red Hat warne… Continue reading SWAPGS Attack — New Speculative Execution Flaw Affects All Modern Intel CPUs
Here are 10 top takeaways from Intel’s most recent class of Spectre-like speculative execution vulnerabilities, disclosed this week. Continue reading Intel ZombieLoad Side-Channel Attack: 10 Takeaways
Overall Intel patched four vulnerabilities, including high-severity flaws in its Media SDK and Intel NUC mini PC. Continue reading Intel Patches High-Severity Flaws in Media SDK, Mini PC
Intel has patched several high-severity vulnerabilities in its graphics drivers for Windows 10, which could lead to code execution. Continue reading Intel Windows 10 Graphics Drivers Riddled With Flaws
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