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Custom Chips As A Service

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Ages ago, making a custom circuit board was hard. Either you had to go buy some traces at Radio Shack, or you spent a boatload of money talking to a board house. Now, PCBs are so cheap, I’m considering tiling my bathroom with them. Today, making a custom chip is horrifically expensive. You can theoretically make a transistor at home, but anything more demands quartz tube heaters and hydrofluoric acid. Custom ASICs are just out of reach for the home hacker, unless you’re siphoning money off of some crypto Ponzi scheme.

Now things may be changing. Costs are coming down, …read more

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Is This The End For The C.H.I.P.?

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There have been so many launches of very capable little single-board computers, that it is easy to forget an individual one among the crowd. You probably remember the C.H.I.P though, for its audacious claim back in 2015 to be the first $9 computer. It ran Linux, and included wireless connectivity, composite video output, and support for battery power. As is so often the case with ambitious startups, progress from the C.H.I.P’s creator Next Thing Co came in fits and starts.

In recent months there has been something of a silence, and now members of the community have discovered evidence that …read more

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Anatomy of Meltdown – A Technical Journey

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This blog reviews the details of Meltdown and discusses the inherent immunity for end users provided by Bromium’s architecture. Meltdown is an Intel CPU vulnerability leveraging speculative execution which gives an attacker-controlled process the… Continue reading Anatomy of Meltdown – A Technical Journey→

Ian Pratt, Bromium Co-Founder, Why Bromium is Releasing an Upgrade [Video]

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The Intel chip vulnerability triggered Spectre and Meltdown – information leakage vulnerabilities. With the advent of the Microsoft Windows patch, it’s important to upgrade Bromium first to keep your security intact. Micro-virtualization ca… Continue reading Ian Pratt, Bromium Co-Founder, Why Bromium is Releasing an Upgrade [Video]→

Ian Pratt, Bromium Co-Founder, Speaks on Spectre and Meltdown [Video]

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The Intel chip vulnerability triggered Spectre and Meltdown – information leakage vulnerabilities. Both let attackers that have execution in some unprivileged user space to read data belonging to other processes, even more privileged ones includi… Continue reading Ian Pratt, Bromium Co-Founder, Speaks on Spectre and Meltdown [Video]→

Ian Pratt, Bromium Co-Founder, Discusses an Enterprise Response to Spectre and Meltdown [Video]

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The Intel chip vulnerability triggered Spectre and Meltdown – information leakage vulnerabilities. Spectre and Meltdown require an attacker to run code on the target system. Micro-virtualization can really help mitigate the effects; even when dea… Continue reading Ian Pratt, Bromium Co-Founder, Discusses an Enterprise Response to Spectre and Meltdown [Video]→

The Low Down on the CPU Vulnerabilities

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As you’ve probably already noticed a few highly dangerous CPU vulnerabilities have been released that effect the CPU at a hardware level. Since this is base off the hardware itself all operating systems (Windows, Linux, Android, macOS) need to pr… Continue reading The Low Down on the CPU Vulnerabilities→

Never Let Your Christmas Tree Run Dry, With Added Ultrasound

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Winter in the parts of the Northern Hemisphere for which observing Christmas includes bringing half a forest into the house should really be divided into two seasons. No-spruce-needles-in-the-carpet season, and spruce-needles-doggedly-clinging-to-the-carpet season. Evergreen trees were not designed for indoor use, and for a hapless householder to stand any chance of keeping those needles on the branches there has to be a significant amount of attention paid to the level of the water keeping the tree hydrated.

[Evan] has paid that attention to the problem of Christmas tree hydration, and to address the shortcomings of earlier designs has come up with …read more

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Intel chips riddled with deadly flaws

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As we’re waiting for security researchers to detail the Intel Management Engine vulnerability that can allow attackers to run undetectable, unsigned code on machines with Intel processors, the US-based chip maker has announced the release of firm… Continue reading Intel chips riddled with deadly flaws→