iPhone Chip Supplier TSMC Stops Production After Computer Virus Attack

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC—Apple's sole supplier of SoC components for iPhones and iPads, and Qualcomm's major manufacturing partner—shut down several of its chip-fabrication factories Friday night after being hit by a computer virus. The world's largest makers of...

Hacking the Bitfi Part 3: The device with no storage

TL;DR? Here’s proof that the Bitfi has storage and that it’s been rooted. -The Bitfi boots at 20 seconds. We’re not disclosing the method yet, as there is plenty more work to be done here. If you’ve been keeping an eye on Twitter, no doubt you’ve seen the unravelling mess that is the security of...

Dixons Carphone Data Breach Affects 10 Million Customers

Dixons Carphone's 2017 data breach was worse than initially anticipated. In an announcement on Monday, Dixons Carphone, one of the largest consumer electronics and telecommunication retailers in Europe, admitted that the breach affected around 10 million customers, up from an initial estimate of...

Spectre attack variant can be remotely mounted to extract sensitive data

By ghostadmin What we know so far about Spectre attacks is that it relies upon execution of malicious code. The code is executed on computers having speculative-execution design flaws in processor chip; once a device is compromised, it becomes possible to obtain sensitive data such as passwords,...

Intel the reproduction of new vulnerabilities or be subjected to hackers implant attack script-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

5 on 22, reported,yesterday, Intel and Microsoft announced a Spectre and Meltdown security vulnerability, the new variant-the“variant 4”. The new variant is the use of“Speculative Store Bypass”, the defect enables the Processor chip to a potential unsafe area to disclose sensitive information...

Supply-Chain Security

Earlier this month, the Pentagon stopped selling phones made by the Chinese companies ZTE and Huawei on military bases because they might be used to spy on their users. It's a legitimate fear, and perhaps a prudent action. But it's just one instance of the much larger issue of securing our supply...

8 New Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities (Spectre-NG) Found in Intel CPUs

A team of security researchers has reportedly discovered a total of eight new "Spectre-class" vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs, which also affect at least a small number of ARM processors and may impact AMD processor architecture as well. Dubbed Spectre-Next Generation, or Spectre-NG, the partial...

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...

Facebook Plans to Build Its Own Chips For Hardware Devices

A new job opening post on Facebook suggests that the social network is forming a team to build its own hardware chips, joining other tech titans like Google, Apple, and Amazon in becoming more self-reliant. According to the post, Facebook is looking for an expert in ASIC and FPGA—two custom silic...

Secret Service Warns of Chip Card Scheme

The U.S. Secret Service is warning financial institutions about a new scam involving the temporary theft of chip-based debit cards issued to large corporations. In this scheme, the fraudsters intercept new debit cards in the mail and replace the chips on the cards with chips from old cards. When...

Intel Halts Spectre Fixes On Older Chips, Citing Limited Ecosystem Support

Intel has halted patches for an array of older chips that would protect them against the Spectre vulnerability, according to a recent microcode update. The microcode update shows that its older products – including Wolfdale, Bloomfield, Clarksfield, Gulftown, Harpertown, Jasper Forest, SoFIA 3GR,...

Intel Admits It Won't Be Possible to Fix Spectre (V2) Flaw in Some Processors

As speculated by the researcher who disclosed Meltdown and Spectre flaws in Intel processors, some of the Intel processors will not receive patches for the Spectre variant 2 side-channel analysis attack In a recent microcode revision guidance PDF, Intel admits that it would not be possible to...

The vulnerability of the Promontory chip, which is used together with Ryzen and Ryzen Pro processors, is related to the presence of undeclared capabilities of the ASIC chip that makes part of the Promontory chip. This allows access to physical memory.

The vulnerability of the Promontory chip, which is used together with Ryzen and Ryzen Pro processors, is related to the presence of undeclared capabilities of the ASIC chip that makes up the Promontory chip. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a perpetrator who has access to the targeted compute...

The vulnerability of the Promontory chip, which is used together with Ryzen and Ryzen Pro processors, is related to the presence of undeclared capabilities in its microprogramming software. This vulnerability allows access to physical memory.

The vulnerability of the Promontory chip, which is used together with Ryzen and Ryzen Pro processors, is related to the presence of undeclared capabilities in its microprogramming environment. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a perpetrator who has access to the targeted computer and possesses...

CVE-2017-7065

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.3.3 is affected. macOS before 10.12.6 is affected. tvOS before 10.2.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Wi-Fi" component. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the Wi-Fi chip or cause a denial of service memory...

chipdesignmag.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-595233 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| chipdesignmag.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

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...

Prilex ATM Malware Modified to Clone Chip-and-Pin Payment Cards

By Uzair Amir It is just another day with just another ATM malware This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Prilex ATM Malware Modified to Clone Chip-and-Pin Payment Cards...

MOSQUITO Attack Allows Air-Gapped Computers to Covertly Exchange Data

The team of security researchers—who last month demonstrated how attackers could steal data from air-gapped computers protected inside a Faraday cage—are back with its new research showing how two or more air-gapped PCs placed in the same room can covertly exchange data via ultrasonic waves...

NVIDIA SHIELD TV NVIDIA Security Engine Information Disclosure Vulnerability

The NVIDIA SHIELD TV is a gaming console device from NVIDIA, U.S. The Security Engine is one of the... A security vulnerability exists in the RSA function of the NVIDIA Security Engine in NVIDIA SHIELD TV SE 6.2 and prior versions, which originates from the program clearing the read/write lockout...