80% of Global Enterprises Report Firmware Cyberattacks

Attacks against firmware are snowballing, outstripping many organizations’ cyber-defenses, according to a survey from Microsoft. The report showed that more than 80 percent of enterprises have experienced at least one firmware attack in the past two years – but only 29 percent of security budgets...

New Security Signals study shows firmware attacks on the rise; here’s how Microsoft is working to help eliminate this entire class of threats

Cybersecurity threats are always evolving, and today we’re seeing a new wave of advanced attacks targeting areas of computing that don’t have the protection of the cloud. New data shows that firmware attacks are on the rise, and businesses aren’t paying close enough attention to securing this...

MGASA-2020-0458 Updated bitcoin packages fix security vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Bitcoin. In Bitcoin Core 0.18.0, bitcoin-qt stores wallet.dat data unencrypted in memory. Upon a crash, it may dump a core file. If a user were to mishandle a core file, an attacker can reconstruct the user's wallet.dat file, including their privat...

Intel Adds Memory Encryption, Firmware Security to Ice Lake Chips

Intel’s third-generation Xeon Scalable server processors, code-named Ice Lake, will be rolled out with new security upgrades that the chip giant claims will better protect devices from firmware attacks. The upcoming chips are based on Ice Lake, Intel’s 10nm CPU microarchitecture, which was first...

AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) Key Recovery Vulnerability

AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization SEV is a hardware memory encryption feature. SEV protects guest virtual machines from the hypervisor, provides confidentiality guarantees at runtime and remote attestation at launch time. The SEV elliptic-curve ECC implementation was found to be vulnerable to a...

OpenSSH Now Encrypts Secret Keys in Memory Against Side-Channel Attacks

In recent years, several groups of cybersecurity researchers have disclosed dozens of memory side-channel vulnerabilities in modern processors and DRAMs, like Rowhammer, RAMBleed, Spectre, and Meltdown. Have you ever noticed they all had at least one thing in common? That's OpenSSH. As a...

OpenSSH Now Encrypts Secret Keys in Memory Against Side-Channel Attacks

In recent years, several groups of cybersecurity researchers have disclosed dozens of memory side-channel vulnerabilities in modern processors and DRAMs, like Rowhammer, RAMBleed, Spectre, and Meltdown. Have you ever noticed they all had at least one thing in common? That's OpenSSH. As a...

Researchers Defeat AMD's SEV Virtual Machine Encryption

German security researchers claim to have found a new practical attack against virtual machines VMs protected using AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization SEV technology that could allow attackers to recover plaintext memory data from guest VMs. AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization SEV technology...

Researchers Defeat AMD's SEV Virtual Machine Encryption

German security researchers claim to have found a new practical attack against virtual machines VMs protected using AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization SEV technology that could allow attackers to recover plaintext memory data from guest VMs. AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization SEV technology...

Kali Linux 2018.1 Release - The Best Penetration Testing Distribution

Kali Linux 2018.1 the first release of 2018, this fine release contains all updated packages and bug fixes since our 2017.3 release last November. This release wasn’t without its challenges–from the Meltdown and Spectre excitement patches will be in the 4.15 kernel to a couple of other nasty bugs...