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Vulnerabilities

A new Meltdown-like flaw tracked as LazyFP affects Intel CPUs

June 15, 2018

Via: Security Affairs

A new vulnerability involving side channel speculative execution on Intel chips, known as LazyFP, has been announced and assigned CVE-2018-3665. A new vulnerability tracked as LazyFP (CVE-2018-3665) involving side channel speculative execution affects Intel CPUs, like previous ones it could […]


Cloud security, Vulnerabilities

AMD Acknowledges Vulnerabilities, Will Roll Out Patches In Coming Weeks

March 21, 2018

Via: Threat Post

AMD on Tuesday acknowledged several vulnerabilities that had been previously reported in its Ryzen and EPYC chips, and said that it would roll out firmware patches for those flaws in the coming weeks. The response comes a week after Israel-based […]


Vulnerabilities

Intel Releases Updated Spectre Fixes For Broadwell and Haswell Chips

February 28, 2018

Via: Threat Post

Intel has issued updated microcode to help safeguard its Broadwell and Haswell chips from the Spectre Variant 2 security exploits. According to Intel documents, an array of its older processors, including the Broadwell Xeon E3, Broadwell U/Y, Haswell H,S and […]


Network security

Google researchers hack computers using DRAM electrical leaks

March 12, 2015

Via: network-security

#google #researchers have written the first-ever attack code that takes advantage of #electrical interference between densely packed memory cells, a unique style of attack that could require changes in #chip #design. The work builds on a paper published last year […]