The device, the app and the cloud, and your development lifecycle isn’t fit enough to catch up By Simon Sharwood Black Hat Asia Wearable devices – and anything that relies…
Tag: Intel
Intel tells users to stop installing chip patches
Software patches issued to fix serious security flaws on Intel chips should no longer be applied, the company has said. The patches tried to tackle flaws called Meltdown and Spectre…
Intel fix causes reboots and slowdowns
Intel says devices are rebooting more than usual after being patched with fixes it has issued to the Spectre and Meltdown security flaws in its chips. The company said it…
Meltdown and Spectre: How chip hacks work
By Chris Baraniuk & Mark Ward As technology companies race to fix two major vulnerabilities found in computer chips, the ways in which those chips could theoretically be targeted by…
Intel to slap hardware lock on Management Engine code to thwart downgrade attacks
From version 12 onward, ME-equipped chips will defend against patch rollbacks By Thomas Claburn Intel’s Coffee Lake and Cannon Lake x86 processors can be fortified by computer manufacturers to prevent…
Intel's management engine - in most CPUs since 2008 - can be p0wned over USB
Creator of OS on the chip calls out Chipzilla for keeping his work secret By Richard Chirgwin Positive Technologies, which in September said it has a way to attack the…