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A team of cybersecurity researchers demonstrated a novel yet another technique to hijack Intel SGX, a hardware-isolated trusted space on modern Intel CPUs that encrypts extremely sensitive data to shield it from attackers even when a system gets compromised. Dubbed Plundervolt and tracked as CVE-2019-11157, the attack relies on the fact that modern processors allow […]
Zombieload is back. This time a new variant (v2) of the data-leaking side-channel vulnerability also affects the most recent Intel CPUs, including the latest Cascade Lake, which are otherwise resistant against attacks like Meltdown, Foreshadow and other MDS variants (RIDL and Fallout). Initially discovered in May this year, ZombieLoad is one of the three novel […]
A new variant of the Spectre (Variant 1) side-channel vulnerability has been discovered that affects all modern Intel CPUs, and probably some AMD processors as well, which leverage speculative execution for high performance, Microsoft and Red Hat warned. Identified as CVE-2019-1125, the vulnerability could allow unprivileged local attackers to access sensitive information stored in the operating system […]
The first ever Made in India Processor, known as AJIT, has been revealed by a team from IIT Bombay. AJIT is the first ever processor to be made from scratch in India. Every phase of the processor’s development, from its design to production, took place in India. A few months back, India also unveiled its first-ever […]
With Intel set to release their next-gen Comet Lake processors, a leaked Linux support list has indicated that the forthcoming desktop processors might feature up to 10 cores. Intel will still rely on the 14nm manufacturing process, and the Comet Lake-S is speculated to be based on the Skylake micro-architecture. It will succeed the currently […]
After announcing their launch at the Media and Analyst Days 2019, Microsoft has launched two new devices, namely the Surface Pro 6 and the Surface Laptop 2 in India. The Surface Laptop 2 and the Surface Pro 6 will be available, starting January 28 via Amazon India, Flipkart and leading offline stores such as Croma, […]
After introducing us to the $1,979 Core i9-9980XE, Intel has even more expensive chip up its sleeves. According to AnandTech, Intel is planning to release a new 5GHZ chip, the Core i9-9990XE. The upcoming high-end desktop processor will be so costly that Intel is planning on auctioning the chip to OEM’s, rather than selling it individually. On the pricing […]