Microsoft Windows: Use of hardware-based encryption (removable data drives)

This policy setting allows you to manage BitLocker Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Microsoft Windows: Hardware-based encryption: BitLockers software-based encryption

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winhwencryptionbitlocker.nasl 11363 2018-09-12 13:46:05Z emoss $ Check value for Configure use of hardware-based encryption for fixed data drives: Use BitLocker software-based encryption when hardware encryption is not...

Microsoft Windows: Hardware-based encryption: Restrict crypto algorithms

This policy setting allows you to manage BitLocker Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Microsoft Windows: Hardware-based encryption: Restrict encryption algorithms

This policy setting allows you to manage BitLocker Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Intel Processors Now Allows Antivirus to Use Built-in GPUs for Malware Scanning

Global chip-maker Intel on Tuesday announced two new technologies—Threat Detection Technology TDT and Security Essentials—that not only offer hardware-based built-in security features across Intel processors but also improve threat detection without compromising system performance. Intel's Threat...

AMD Rolls Out Spectre Fixes

AMD said that CPU firmware and Windows 10 patches are now available to safeguard its products against the Spectre security flaw. Mark Papermaster, senior vice president and chief technology officer at AMD, said in a Tuesday post that Spectre fixes are available for AMD customers, who can download...

Intel Details CPU ‘Virtual Fences’ Fix As Safeguard Against Spectre, Meltdown Flaws

Intel introduced hardware-based protections to its new chips to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown flaws that rocked the silicon industry when the vulnerabilities were made public in early 2018. Spectre and Meltdown, which account for three variants of a side-channel analysis security issue...

For NXP I. MX microprocessor HAB vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

One, Foreword NXP（NXP）semiconductor production company i. The MX Series application processor of the Secure Boot features in the presence of two vulnerabilities, two vulnerabilities by Quarkslab the two researchers Guillaume Delugré and Kévin Szkudłapski found this article on the two vulnerabilit...

Vulnerable Radiation Monitoring Devices Won't Be Patched

LAS VEGAS—Three radiation monitoring device vendors have told researchers they will not be fixing a handful of vulnerabilities that could be abused by hackers, including a backdoor that affords high privileges on one device. The flaws were privately disclosed by IOActive researcher Ruben Santamar...

Facebook Adds FIDO U2F Security Keys Feature For Secure Logins

Hacking password for a Facebook account is not easy, but also not impossible. We have always been advising you to enable two-factor authentication — or 2FA — to secure your online accounts, a process that requires users to manually enter, typically a six-digit secret code generated by an...

[CVE-2 0 1 4-3 1 0 0]Android KeyStore stack overflow vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

CVE-2 0 1 4-3 1 0 0 is Android platform KeyStore to a stack overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability is the last 9 month by IBM of the two engineers found and reported to Google, in year 6, on 2 3, is disclosed. After the public, Google also released a vulnerability test code. So what is a...

Intel launches Hardware-based Self-Encrypting Solid State Drives

Data security is a big task for businesses as well as a challenge for IT leaders, whether it be securing networks or devices. Past few months, we often came across various data breaches, the largest among all was Target data breach, which cost a business nearly $50,000 in lost productivity,...

/Dev/Random PRNG in Linux Questioned

The sanctity of the dev/random random number generator used in the Linux kernel has been a hot-button issue for more than a month. A petition posted to change.org in September to remove RdRand from dev/random, for example, was met with fury from Linus Torvalds who called the developer who posted ...

Google Looking Into Hardware to Help Kill the Password

Google is looking at a number of hardware-based authentication mechanisms to bypass one of security’s biggest vulnerabilities: the written password. Wired Magazine got an advanced look at a report submitted by a Google security team for IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine that discusses alternatives...

Hardware based malware steals contacts from all mobile platforms using only the Audio Jack!

Indian Security Research Atul Alex presented his surprise paper at the International Malware Conference, MalCon on what can be termed as the onset of next generation of hardware based malware that can target mobile devices irrespective of Platforms. Typically, one of the largest challenges for...

TPM Chip in Windows 8 Lays Foundation for Widespread Enhancements to Hardware-Based Security

Today’s release of the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system brings embedded hardware-level security to the forefront. Microsoft, going forward, will require the Trusted Platform Module TPM chip on Windows PCs, phones and tablets, moving security checks to the platoform’s lowest level. TPM isn’t...

Zeus Kits Take Anti-Piracy Page from MS

The latest version of the Zeus do-it-yourself crimeware kit goes to great lengths to thwart would-be pirates by introducing a hardware-based product activation scheme similar to what’s found in Microsoft Windows. Read the full article. The Register...

Researchers Create Hypervisor Tool for Rootkits

Research between North Carolina State and Microsoft has garnered a way to better isolate and centralize kernels–up to 6,000 different kernel hooks–and has stopped nine rootkits. The tool is called HookSafe and runs on Ubuntu Linux 8.04 and uses hardware-based memory. At issue is whether other...

iPhone 3G S still not enterprise-ready

From Computerworld Matt Hamblen The new iPhone 3G S boasts remote data wipe, hardware-based encryption and tethering of the device to a laptop that would seem to please business users interested in protecting data and enhancing productivity. But no, those steps are not good enough for widespread...