For the past two years, modern CPUs—particularly those made by Intel—have been under siege by an unending series of attacks that make it possible for highly skilled attackers to pluck passwords, ...

The strange vulnerability could have allowed for escalation of privilege, denial of service or information disclosure attacks. Intel has published a fix for a potential vulnerability that affected ...

Researchers have extracted the secret key that encrypts updates to an assortment of Intel CPUs, a feat that could have wide-ranging consequences for the way the chips are used and, possibly, the way ...

Intel has released microcode updates for several generations of mobile, desktop, and server CPUs to fix a vulnerability that can be exploited to trigger at the very least a denial-of-service condition ...

Researchers have devised a new method that allows potential attackers to leak sensitive information such as encryption keys from the Linux kernel’s memory and Intel SGX enclaves. The attack, dubbed ...

Canonical has released a new Linux Intel microcode update for Ubuntu that fixes an issue causing Intel Skylake CPUs to hang after a warm reboot. On November 12th, 2019, new Intel microcodes were ...

After nearly three months of back-and-forth with different updates, Intel is pushing out new production-ready microcode for several of its chips, including its Ivy Bridge Broadwell designs, which ...

It's not really a Linux problem, but as is so often the case, Linux kernel developers have to clean up after AMD and Intel. It happened again with the chipmakers' latest CPU vulnerabilities: AMD ...

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At BlackHat today, Bitdefender disclosed a new variant of the Spectre 1 speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities that could allow a malicious program to access and read the contents of ...

The Zombieload vulnerability disclosed earlier this year in May has a second variant that also works against more recent Intel processors, not just older ones, including Cascade Lake, Intel's latest ...

Another vulnerability has been discovered in Intel CPUs. Again, Intel CPUs have been found to be prey to a speculative execution attack, but previous generation software and hardware patches haven't ...