What we’ve got here is failure to communicate: OS vendors misread CPU docs, create flaw

In a memorable scene from “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” Whoopi Goldberg struggles to understand the lyrics of the eponymous song from the Rolling Stones, as she pleads: “Mick, Mick, Mick, speak English!” It appears that multiple operating system vendors had similar trouble interpreting Intel and AMD...

New Technique Complicates Mutex Malware Analysis

Malware analysts have had a measure of success using static mutex values as a fingerprint for detecting and blocking malicious code. These values are used in programming to enable software to synchronize communication between multiple threads or processes, or to determine whether another instance...