Intel Failed to Fix a Hackable Chip Flaw Despite a Year of Warnings

Speculative execution attacks still haunt Intel, long after researchers told the company what to fix...

Google's Ultra-Secure Chip, a Facebook Facelift, and More

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Google Is Helping Design an Open Source, Ultra-Secure Chip

OpenTitan is a so-called secure enclave based on open source that could shake up hardware security...

IoT security will set innovation free: Azure Sphere general availability scheduled for February 2020

Today, at the IoT Solutions World Congress, we announced that Azure Sphere will be generally available in February of 2020. General availability will mark our readiness to fulfill our security promise at scale, and to put the power of Microsoft’s expertise to work for our customers every day—by...

CVE-2019-15809

Smart cards from the Athena SCS manufacturer, based on the Atmel Toolbox 00.03.11.05 and the AT90SC chip, contain a timing side channel in ECDSA signature generation. This allows a local attacker, able to measure the duration of hundreds to thousands of signing operations, to compute the private...

Design/Logic Flaw

Smart cards from the Athena SCS manufacturer, based on the Atmel Toolbox 00.03.11.05 and the AT90SC chip, contain a timing side channel in ECDSA signature generation. This allows a local attacker, able to measure the duration of hundreds to thousands of signing operations, to compute the private...

iOS Exploit 'Checkm8' Could Allow Permanent iPhone Jailbreaks

A researcher is warning of an un-patchable bug affecting hundreds of millions of iPhones that gives attackers system-level access to handsets via an unblockable jailbreak hack. Right now, the scope of the attack is limited. The exploit is dubbed “checkm8” by a security researcher who goes by the...

Hacker Releases 'Unpatchable' Jailbreak For All iOS Devices, iPhone 4s to iPhone X

An iOS hacker and cybersecurity researcher today publicly released what he claimed to be a "permanent unpatchable bootrom exploit," in other words, an epic jailbreak that works on all iOS devices ranging from iPhone 4s A5 chip to iPhone 8 and iPhone X A11 chip. Dubbed Checkm8, the exploit leverag...

Heap overflow

There is heap-based buffer overflow in Linux kernel, all versions up to, excluding 5.3, in the marvell wifi chip driver in Linux kernel, that allows local users to cause a denial of servicesystem crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2019-14814

There is heap-based buffer overflow in Linux kernel, all versions up to, excluding 5.3, in the marvell wifi chip driver in Linux kernel, that allows local users to cause a denial of servicesystem crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2019-14816

There is heap-based buffer overflow in kernel, all versions up to, excluding 5.3, in the marvell wifi chip driver in Linux kernel, that allows local users to cause a denial of servicesystem crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2019-14816

CVE-2019-14816 is a Linux kernel heap-based buffer overflow in the mwifiex (Marvell) wifi driver that affects all versions up to, but excluding, 5.3. It enables a local attacker to crash the system or potentially execute arbitrary code via the Marvell wifi chip driver; affected scope is the kerne...

CVE-2019-14814

There is heap-based buffer overflow in Linux kernel, all versions up to, excluding 5.3, in the marvell wifi chip driver in Linux kernel, that allows local users to cause a denial of servicesystem crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

Qualcomm WLAN Chip Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

The Qualcomm WLAN chip is a dedicated chip for processing WLAN/WIFI protocols on Qualcomm platforms and is part of the Qualcomm Baseband subsystem, which is used to increase the speed and performance of WLAN/WIFI processing and reduce energy consumption. A remote code execution vulnerability exis...

Talos DEFCON badge build instructions and use

By Patrick Mullen. We want to thank everyone who stopped by the Cisco Talos booth at DEFCON's Blue Team Village earlier this month. We handed out these badges at our area where we had Snort rules challenges, reverse-Capture the Flag and recruiters ready to answer attendees' career advice question...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10764

In the Linux kernel before 4.9.6, there is an off by one in the drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c cqspisetupflash function. There are CQSPIMAXCHIPSELECT elements in the -fpdata array so the "" should be "=" instead...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10764

In the Linux kernel before 4.9.6, there is an off by one in the drivers/mtd/spi-nor/cadence-quadspi.c cqspisetupflash function. There are CQSPIMAXCHIPSELECT elements in the -fpdata array so the "" should be "=" instead...

The vulnerability in the implementation of the udc_pci_probe handler in the Linux operating system allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the udcpciprobe handler in the Linux kernel’s drivers/usb/gadget/udc/amd5536udc.ko module is related to the repeated memory release mechanism. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a system failure by connecting an AMD5536 UDC device, which appears as a...

Intel official for 5 on 15, the aeration out of the CPU side channel vulnerabilities“ZombieLoad”detailed technical analysis on-the vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Background understanding 5 March 15, the media exposed, security researchers at a month before the Intel chip found in the one called“ZombieLoad”the new vulnerability, this vulnerability may allow an attacker to obtain the current processor is processing the sensitive data. An attacker can exploi...

Another Intel Chip Flaw

Remember the Spectre and Meltdown attacks from last year? They were a new class of attacks against complex CPUs, finding subliminal channels in optimization techniques that allow hackers to steal information. Since their discovery, researchers have found additional similar vulnerabilities. A whol...