August 03, 2023

Performance and security clash yet again in “Collide+Power” attack

It's a real vulnerability, but the data leakage rate can be as low as... let's just say that an IMAX-quality copy of the new "Oppenheimer" movie could take you 4 billion years to exfiltrate.

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March 27, 2023

In Memoriam – Gordon Moore, who put the more in “Moore’s Law”

His prediction was called a "Law", though it was an exhortation to engineering excellence as much it was an estimate.

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June 16, 2020

Intel announces “exploit busting” features in its next processor chips

More bad news for cybercrooks... we hope.

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June 12, 2020

Intel patches chip flaw that could leak your cryptographic secrets

Intel chip features that were intended to help you do cryptography better could have leaked your inner secrets.

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April 16, 2020

Update now! Windows zero-day flaws fixed in Patch Tuesday

...and there are fixes for Adobe, Oracle and Intel products too. Go get your updates!

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March 12, 2020

Intel patches graphics drivers and offers new LVI flaw mitigations

Intel’s March security updates reached its customers this week and the dominant theme is the bundle of flaws affecting Graphics drivers.

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December 12, 2019

December Patch Tuesday blunts WizardOpium attack chain

December 2019’s Patch Tuesday updates are out, including a fix for the Windows flaw used in recently discovered WizardOpium attacks.

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October 31, 2019

Linux maintainer: Patching side-channel flaws is killing performance

Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the worst side-channel vulnerability of them all?

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September 13, 2019

Intel: SSH-stealing NetCAT bug not really a problem

There's another vulnerability in Intel chips, with another catchy name: NetCAT.

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