Cryptomininers killing cryptominers to squeeze more out of your CPU
30 years may have passed since the advent of the computer virus problem, but there is still malware fighting malware for control of your …
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Defending Against ‘Foreshadow’ Intel CPU Attacks: What You Need to Do
Enterprise IT system administrators will soon have to implement fixes to the newly revealed Intel L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability, also …
Use Debian? Want Intel’s latest CPU patch? Small print sparks big problem
At least one Linux distribution is withholding security patches that mitigate the latest round of Intel CPU design flaws – due to a …
New Intel chip flaw “Foreshadow” attacks SGX technology to extract sensitive data
. But, to add to their misery, there is another possibly worst hardware flaw detected by security researchers in Intel chips. This flaw, …
Foreshadow Attacks – experts found 3 new Intel CPU side-channel flaws
Security researchers disclosed the details of three new speculative execution side-channel attacks that affect Intel processors. The new …
‘Foreshadow’ Flaw Undermines the Intel CPU Secure Enclave
this has been the year of Spectre and Meltdown, not only because the chip vulnerabilities—first publicly disclosed in January—were so …
TLBleed Side-Channel CPU Attack Detailed at Black Hat
VIDEO: Security researcher Ben Gras from VU University details a new side-channel attack method against CPU …
Spec-exec CPU bugs sweep hacking Oscars – and John McAfee’s in there like a bullet
Black Hat The whizz kids who uncovered the Spectre and Meltdown data-leaking flaws in modern processors have scooped two Pwnie Awards – …
Revealed: El Reg blew lid off Meltdown CPU bug before Intel told US govt – and how bitter tech rivals teamed up
Black Hat Next time you leave things to the last minute, remember this well. Despite having known about the Meltdown and Spectre security …
Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy
Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone …
What to Do When the Vendor’s Security Patch Doesn’t Fix the Problem?
Back in the days before television informercials, there were ads asking: “How many times has THIS happened to you?” What usually …
NetSpectre Attack Could Enable Remote CPU Exploitation
Researchers have discovered a method that could potentially enable an attacker to use the Spectre CPU vulnerabilities over a remote network …
Hacker Takes Over Pro Wrestler’s Twitter Account, Protests Motherboard Investigation of Social Media Account Hacking
A hacker took control of the Twitter account of pro wrestler Adam Cole and used it to protest Motherboard’s recent investigation into a …
Q3 Oracle CPU Preview: Fewer Java SE Patches May Not Mean Fewer Flaws
The Oracle Database Server may also get three patches, including to the Java Virtual Machine. The highest CVSS base score is expected to be …
Intel Paid $100,000 Reward to Researchers who Discovered Spectre 1.1, 1.2 CPU Level Vulnerability
Intel rewarded $100,000 for two security researchers to find the CPU Spectre level critical vulnerability which leads to leak confidential …
Intel Discloses New Spectre Flaws, Pays Researchers $100K
Intel disclosed a series of vulnerabilities on July 10, including new variants of the Spectre vulnerability the company has been dealing …
Intel pays a $100K bug bounty for the new CPU Spectre 1.1 flaw
A team of researchers has discovered new variant of the famous Spectre attack (Spectre 1.1), and Intel has paid a $100,000 bug bounty as …
Two New Spectre-Class CPU Flaws Discovered—Intel Pays $100K Bounty
Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty for new processor vulnerabilities that are related to Spectre variant one (CVE-2017-5753). The new …
Another Spectre CPU vulnerability among Intel’s dirty dozen of security bug alerts today
Exclusive Intel will today emit a dozen security alerts for its products and code – including details of another vulnerability within the …
Marvell Completes Acquisition of Cavium, Gets CPU, Networking & Security Assets
Marvell on Friday announced that it had completed its takeover of Cavium. The combined company will have a broad portfolio of IP and …
The Pirate Bay is plundering your CPU for cryptocash, again
Popular file sharing site The Pirate Bay seems to have returned to its old tricks again by mining cryptocurrency in visitors’ browsers …
How polite: Fun-bucks coin miners graciously ease off CPU pounding
Cryptocurrency-mining malware writers are dialing back their use of your compute cycles in order to avoid detection. This is according to …
TLBleed is latest Intel CPU flaw to surface: But don’t expect it to be fixed
Video: Intel says it can’t protect all chips vulnerable to Meltdown and …
Oracle gets busy with Lazy FPU fix, adds more CPU Spectre-protectors
Oracle has released fixes for Spectre v3a, Spectre v4, and the “Lazy FPU” vulnerability. The two Spectre patches cover CVE-2018-3640 …
Meet TLBleed: A crypto-key-leaking CPU attack that Intel reckons we shouldn’t worry about
Intel has, for now, no plans to specifically address a side-channel vulnerability in its processors that can be potentially exploited by …
More Mitigations for (potential) CPU Vulnerabilities
There have been more developments in the continuing work mitigating against (Intel®, and potentially other) CPU vulnerabilities… Philip …
Boffins offer to make speculative execution great again with Spectre-Meltdown CPU fix
A group of computer science researchers has proposed a way to overcome the security risk posed by speculative execution, the data …
New ‘Lazy FP State Restore’ Vulnerability Found in All Modern Intel CPUs
Hell Yeah! Another security vulnerability has been discovered in Intel chips that affects the processor’s speculative execution …
Another day, another Intel CPU security hole: Lazy State
Once upon a time, when we worried about security, we worried about our software. These days, it’s our hardware, our CPUs, with problems …
How a URL shortener allows malicious actors to hijack visitors’ CPU power
URL shorteners are often used by malware peddlers and attackers to trick users into following a link they otherwise wouldn’t. But …