Tag: intel

February 28, 2018

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 […]

February 19, 2018

More than 30 lawsuits have been filed by Intel customers and shareholders against the chip giant following the disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre attack methods. Three class action lawsuits were filed against Intel within a week of the Meltdown […]

January 8, 2018

At least three class action lawsuits have been filed against Intel in the past days over the recently disclosed vulnerabilities that could allow malicious hackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from computers. The Meltdown and Spectre attack methods uncovered by […]

January 5, 2018

Many Bothans died to bring us this information. Well, not really. No one died. And Bothans aren’t real. But two critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Intel, AMD, and ARM processors that date back over two decades. On Wednesday, January […]

January 4, 2018

The massive cyber-vulnerability revealed this week in Intel’s chips goes beyond the firm and affects other companies’ chips as well, according to Intel. The chip flaw leaves many computer processors created over the last 10 years, according to some reports, open […]

December 7, 2017

Researchers at Black Hat Europe today revealed how a buffer overflow they discovered in the chip’s firmware can be abused to take control of a machine – even when it’s turned ‘off.’ A recently discovered and now patched vulnerability in […]

November 24, 2017

Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, HPE, Lenovo, Intel and Panasonic are working on releasing patches for the recently disclosed vulnerabilities affecting Intel CPUs, but it could take a while until firmware updates become available to all customers. After external researchers identified several […]

November 22, 2017

Intel released patches on Monday to protect millions of PCs and servers from vulnerabilities found in its Management Engine, Trusted Execution Engine and Server Platform Services that could allow local attackers elevate privileges, run arbitrary code, crash systems and eavesdrop […]

October 19, 2017

A post-intrusion technique developed by researchers at CyberArk Labs called BoundHooking allows attackers to exploit a feature in all Intel chips introduced since Skylake. The attack technique allows for the execution of code from any process without detection by antivirus […]

May 2, 2017

Intel patched a critical vulnerability that dates back nine years and impacts business desktop PCs that utilize the company’s Active Management Technology. According to an Intel security bulletin, the flaw could allow an adversary to elevate privileges on a vulnerable system. […]

September 16, 2015

Most reports on data theft events concentrate on how the bad guys got into the organization, what failed to stop them, and what information was taken. I often think about how the information was taken out, or exfiltrated, and who […]

September 15, 2015

An #automotive Security #review board (#asrb) established by #intel and a set of automotive cybersecurity best practices will help mitigate cybersecurity risks associated with connected automobiles, according to a Monday release. The ASRB board will consist of security professionals from […]

August 7, 2015

A design #flaw in the x86-#processor #architecture dating back almost two decades could allow attackers to install a #rootkit in the low-level firmware of computers, a security researcher said Thursday. Such malware could be undetectable by security products. The vulnerability […]