A Simple JavaScript Exploit Bypasses ASLR Protection On 22 CPU Architectures

Security researchers have discovered a chip flaw that could nullify hacking protections for millions of devices regardless of their operating system or application running on them, and the worse — the flaw can not be entirely fixed with any mere software update. The vulnerability resides in the w...

Local APIC Elevation of Privilege

Summary: Intel is releasing mitigations for a privilege escalation issue. This issue affects certain Intel processors based on older Intel micro-architectures. The issue identified is a method that enables malicious code to gain access to System Management Mode SMM. Description: An issue was...