Code injection

Tesla Model X vehicles before 2020-11-23 have key fobs that accept firmware updates without signature verification. This allows attackers to construct firmware that retrieves an unlock code from a secure enclave chip...

CVE-2020-29438

Tesla Model X vehicles before 2020-11-23 have key fobs that accept firmware updates without signature verification. This allows attackers to construct firmware that retrieves an unlock code from a secure enclave chip...

CVE-2020-29438

CVE-2020-29438 affects Tesla Model X key fob firmware prior to 2020-11-23. The vulnerability arises because key fobs accept firmware updates without signature verification, enabling an attacker to craft firmware that retrieves an unlock code from a secure enclave chip. Documents consistently desc...

Microsoft hopes Windows PCs protection with Pluton security chip

By Deeba Ahmed The new Pluton security processor will amplify chip security and prevent hardware flaws like Spectre and Meltdown to steal data from processors. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft hopes Windows PCs protection with Pluton security chip...

Microsoft's Making a Secure PC Chip—With Intel and AMD's Help

The Pluton security processor will give the software giant an even more prominent role in locking down Windows hardware...

Binary Vulnerability in Rexchip Chip (CNVD-2020-67105)

With a R&D team specializing in system-on-chip design and algorithm research, Rexchip Microelectronics Corporation provides professional chip solutions for high-end intelligent hardware, cell phone peripherals, tablet PCs, TV set-top boxes, industrial control and other fields. A binary...

System Management Mode deep dive: How SMM isolation hardens the platform

Ensuring that the platform firmware is healthy and trustworthy is fundamental to guaranteeing that powerful platform security features like Hypervisor-protected code integrity HVCI and Windows Defender Credential Guard are functioning as expected. Windows 10 achieves this by leveraging a...

System Management Mode deep dive: How SMM isolation hardens the platform

Ensuring that the platform firmware is healthy and trustworthy is fundamental to guaranteeing that powerful platform security features like Hypervisor-protected code integrity HVCI and Windows Defender Credential Guard are functioning as expected. Windows 10 achieves this by leveraging a...

CVE-2020-0445

There is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check.Product: AndroidVersions: Android SoCAndroid ID: A-168264527...

CVE-2020-0447

There is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check.Product: AndroidVersions: Android SoCAndroid ID: A-168251617...

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rexchip Chips

Rexchip, a company mainly focusing on digital audio/video and broadcasting, provides total solutions from chips to system SoC software for consumer product manufacturers. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the Rexchip chip, which can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service...

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rexchip Microelectronics Corporation's Rexchip Chip

Focusing on mobile Internet and digital multimedia chip design, Rexchip is a professional SOC solution provider for personal mobile information terminals. A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in Ruixin Microelectronics Corporation's Ruixin Micro chip, which can be exploited by attackers to...

Apple's T2 Security Chip Has an Unfixable Flaw

The Checkm8 vulnerability that exposed years of iPhones to jailbreaking has finally been exploited in Macs as well...

Unpatched Apple T2 Chip Flaw Plagues Macs

A researcher is claiming that Apple devices – with a macOS operating system and a T2 security chip – are open to an exploit that could give bad actors root access. A fix has not been issued by Apple. The flaw stems from the T2 chip, which is the second-generation version of Apple’s chip that...

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...

Binary Vulnerability in Rexchip Microelectronics Corporation's Rexchip Chip

Focusing on mobile Internet and digital multimedia chip design, Rexchip is a professional SOC solution provider for personal mobile information terminals. A binary vulnerability exists in Rexchip Microelectronics Corporation's Rexchip microchip, which can be exploited by attackers to launch...

400 chip flaws can turn 3 billion Android phones into perfect spying tool

By Zara Khan These vulnerabilities if exploited can turn a device into a perfect spying tool. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 400 chip flaws can turn 3 billion Android phones into perfect spying tool...

Chinese Hackers Have Pillaged Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry

A campaign called Operation Skeleton Key has stolen source code, software development kits, chip designs, and more...

Is Your Chip Card Secure? Much Depends on Where You Bank

Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay for something by dipping the chip instead of swiping the stripe. But a recent series of malware attacks on U.S.-based merchants suggest thieves are exploiting...

Here’s Why Credit Card Fraud is Still a Thing

Most of the civilized world years ago shifted to requiring computer chips in payment cards that make it far more expensive and difficult for thieves to clone and use them for fraud. One notable exception is the United States, which is still lurching toward this goal. Heres a look at the havoc tha...