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...

PT-2020-13626 · Espressif · Esp32

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ESP32 affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns bypassing Secure Boot and Flash Encryption on ESP32 chips. It allows extracting decrypted flash data from a fully protected ESP32 chip using chip-level weaknesses, without...

Intel CPU Spoiler vulnerability alerts-a vulnerability alert-the black bar safety net

Spoiler is the researchers found that the impact of the Intel microprocessor architecture of a speculative attack a speculative attack is a new microprocessor disclosure vulnerability that leaks is about the physical page to the user space process mapping of key information. Spoiler with 2018 1 o...

All Nintendo Switch Consoles Contain Unpatchable Chip-Level Flaw

By Waqas Nintendo Switch has fans across the world; the gaming console This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: All Nintendo Switch Consoles Contain Unpatchable Chip-Level Flaw...

Adding Backdoors at the Chip Level

Interesting research into undetectably adding backdoors into computer chips during manufacture: "Stealthy dopant-level hardware Trojans: extended version," also available here: Abstract: In recent years, hardware Trojans have drawn the attention of governments and industry as well as the scientif...