“Dude, Where’s My Car’s Security?” Rambus Releases Programmable Chip in Wake of Spectre, Eyes Automotive Market
Semiconductor maker Rambus has released a new programmable chip that aims to “establish the trust chain” early in the silicon …
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Intel’s security light bulb moment: Chips to recruit GPUs to scan memory for software nasties
Having weathered revelations in January that its chips can be attacked through a novel class of side-channel vulnerabilities – mostly …
Criminals Have Found a Way to Replace the Chips on Credit Cards
Over the past few years, credit card terminals and users across the US have been transitioning from the old style of credit and debit cards …
Crooks are swapping out chips on payment cards, says US Secret Service
Well-known cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs is reporting a US scam aimed at chip-based payment cards. The crooks are stealing cards …
Secret Service Warns of Chip Card Scheme
The U.S. Secret Service is warning financial institutions about a new scam involving the temporary theft of chip-based debit cards issued …
Intel Halts Spectre Patching for Some Chips
The long-running Spectre patching cycle took another turn this week after Intel revealed it won’t be updating all chip models affected by …
Those Nasty AMD Chip Flaws Will Be Patched In A Flash
Just last week Israeli security firm CTS-Labs dropped a bomb on AMD. While the Intel rival’s chips weren’t as affected by the Spectre …
Researchers Warn Of Dangerous New Vulnerabilities Found In AMD Chips
Intel has spent most of the early part of this year dealing with fallout from the revelation of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. …
Intel does its best to tamp down impact of Spectre and Meltdown in earnings call
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich was delighted to report that Intel had a record year in the company’s quarterly earnings call with analysts …
Intel Joins the Race for Quantum Supremacy with a 49-Qubit Chip
At CES 2018, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced Intel successfully built a 49-qubit chip, which aims to allow researchers to improve error …
Spectre Reversal: AMD Confirms Chips Have Flaws
In a reversal, chipmaker AMD is now warning that its chips are susceptible to the speculative execution flaws in microprocessors known as …
Intel Chip flaw: Every Apple devices vulnerable to hacking
Apple has confirmed that it’s every iPhone, iPad, Mac device, and Apple TV is vulnerable to the major Intel bug that could allow them to be …
Scary Chip Flaws Raise Spectre of Meltdown
Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants have released updates for a pair of serious security flaws present in most modern computers, …
Operating System Vendors Rushing Out Fixes for Intel Chip Flaw
A KPTI Intel chip flaw exposes security risks; Microsoft will acquire Avere Systems for cloud HPC storage; Google Community …
Operating Systems Vendors Rushing Out Fixes for Intel Chip Flaw
DAILY VIDEO: A KPTI Intel chip flaw exposes security risks; Microsoft will acquire Avere Systems for cloud HPC storage; Google Community …
Will Huge Chip Vulnerabilities Lead To Mass Intel, AMD And ARM Recalls?
Back when models of Jeep were determined vulnerable to cyberattack in 2015, Fiat Chrysler announced a recall of 1.4 million cars. Should …
Here Are All The Available Fixes You Need For Those Huge Chip Hacks
Vendors are rushing out fixes for the Meltdown and Spectre attacks that were disclosed on Wednesday. The hacks can occur in various ways, …
Massive Intel Chip Security Flaw Threatens Computers
A design flaw in all Intel chips produced in the last decade is responsible for a vulnerability that puts Linux, Windows and macOS-powered …
Security flaw found in Intel chips may also affect AMD and ARM processors
News broke this week of a security flaw present in Intel chips which could potentially leave millions of computers vulnerable — and it …
Meltdown and Spectre: Chip hack gets a name, emergency patch and official statement from Microsoft
The story regarding the massive vulnerability in nearly every PC and apparently also phone for the last 20 years is rapidly unfolding today …
Intel, AMD Chip Vulnerabilities Put Billions of Devices at Risk
Researchers have disclosed technical details of two new attack methods that exploit critical flaws in CPUs from Intel, AMD and other …
Critical flaws revealed to affect most Intel chips since 1995
Critical flaws revealed to affect most Intel chips since 1995 Most Intel processors and some ARM chips are confirmed to be vulnerable, …
KPTI Intel Chip Flaw Exposes Security Risks
Operating system vendors are rushing to put out a fix for an alleged Intel chip flaw that could potentially be used to exploit systems. The …
DARPA, University of Michigan Team Up to Build ‘Unhackable’ Chip
DARPA has announced a $3.6 million grant to a University of Michigan team with the goal of building an “unhackable” processor. …
Hackers Turn On “GOD MODE” To Hack Intel ME Chip Like A Boss #BlackHatEurope
As promised earlier, the researchers from the Russian security firm Positive Technologies have revealed how they managed to hack Intel’s …
Intel chip flaw in Management Engine could give hackers ‘insidious’ control over millions of devices
Security researchers have discovered severe bugs in Intel’s remote administration feature called Management Engine that could give hackers …
Intel chips riddled with deadly flaws
The increased interest that security researchers have shown in Intel Management Engine and the number of issues they have identified and …
Experts Find Faster Way to Exploit Infineon Chip Crypto Flaw
A team of experts from the Czech Republic, the U.K. and Italy showed recently that millions of products using chips from German …
Estonia Blocked 760,000 National Electronic ID cards due to Critical Crypto Vulnerability Detected in ID Chip
The Republic of Estonia Decides to Cancel 50,000 ID cards issued starting from October 2014 due to potential Crypto vulnerability affecting …
Undetectable ATM “Shimmers” Hacker’s Latest Tool for Steal your Chip Based Card Details from POS Terminal
Latest warning coming out from Canada about sophisticated ATM skimming called “Shimmers” targeted chip-based credit and Debit cards …