Security News This Week: US Energy Firm Targeted With Malicious QR Codes in Mass Phishing Attack

New research reveals the strategies hackers use to hide their malware distribution system, and companies are rushing to release mitigations for the “Downfall” processor vulnerability on Intel chips...

High severity Intel chip flaw left cars, medical and IoT devices vulnerable

By Deeba Ahmed A vulnerability in Intel CPUs allowed an attacker with physical access to a device to gain enhanced privileges on the system. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: High severity Intel chip flaw left cars, medical and IoT devices vulnerable...

High-Severity Intel Processor Bug Exposes Encryption Keys

A security vulnerability in Intel chips opens the door for encrypted file access and espionage, plus the ability to bypass copyright protection for digital content. That’s according to Positive Technologies PT, which found that the vulnerability CVE-2021-0146 is a debugging functionality with...

New Spectre-Like Attacks

Theres new research that demonstrates security vulnerabilities in all of the AMD and Intel chips with micro-op caches, including the ones that were specifically engineered to be resistant to the Spectre/Meltdown attacks of three years ago. Details: The new line of attacks exploits the micro-op...

New Attacks Slaughter All Spectre Defenses

All defenses against Spectre side-channel attacks can now be considered broken, leaving billions of computers and other devices just as vulnerable today as they were when the hardware flaw was first announced three years ago. A paper published on Friday by a team of computer scientists from the...

An Unfixable Flaw Threatens 5 Years of Intel Chips

Plus: A J. Crew breach, CIA hacking, and more of the week's top security news...

Another Side Channel in Intel Chips

Not that serious, but interesting: In late 2011, Intel introduced a performance enhancement to its line of server processors that allowed network cards and other peripherals to connect directly to a CPU's last-level cache, rather than following the standard and significantly longer path through t...

Apple Patches Intel Side-Channel Bugs; Updates iOS, macOS and More

Apple has rolled out 173 patches across in various products across its hardware portfolio, including for dangerous bugs in macOS for laptops and desktops, iPhone, Apple TV and Apple Watch. The update also includes a patch for the side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel chips disclosed on Tuesday,...

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,...

This Week in Security News: Meltdowns and Hijacks

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, we saw discussions on the vulnerabilities of chat bots and AI programs, and the types of software that may not be safe from malware and...