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Since the vulnerabilities of Spectre and Meltdown appeared, specialists in information security services anticipated that implementing software fixes for these flaws implied a decrease in the performance of a system, although due to the new information related to this type of cyber errors the exact impact is still unknown, and there is still not enough […]
Spectre and Meltdown attacks were initially discovered in early 2018. Following which, many security researchers have tried and tested different methods to put an end to the security flaws. However, researchers at Google have concluded that Spectre-type vulnerabilities are most likely to sustain as a feature in processors. Therefore, software-based techniques alone are inadequate to […]
2018 is not a good year for chip vendors, as they have not received any break when it comes to the continued stream of discoveries when it comes to their processors’ hardware vulnerabilities. Recently, another batch of 7 distinct Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities are publicly disclosed by security researchers. Intel, AMD, and ARM have not […]
Developers insist that existing defenses will be enough to contain attacks, but experts disagree Information security and digital forensic investigators have discovered a new set of transient execution attacks on modern CPUs that allow a local attacker to gain access to the system’s privileged data, confirming predictions made when the cybersecurity community revealed the Spectre and Meltdown […]
A team of Researchers discovered 7 New Meltdown and Spectre Level attacks called a sound and extensible systematization of transient execution which includes 2 new Meltdown Attack variants and 5 variants belong to Spectre attack. All the 7 attacks are affected the 3 major processor vendors Intel, AMD, ARM that allows an attacker to gain […]
When the Spectre and Meltdown security flaws in Intel chips were disclosed earlier this year, security researchers called it a loophole so big that it’ll keep leaking for some considerable time in the future as well. Over the course of following months, that prediction turned out to be true and we are still witnessing similar […]
The entire tech industry was shaken after the discovery of Meltdown and Spectre, critical security bugs that were found in almost all modern computer processors, and the aftershocks are still being observed. Chrome is the newest victim of the collateral damage that these bugs have brought forth. Reportedly, Google Chrome 67 has now enabled Site […]
Spectre and meltdown attacks are two cyber threat vulnerabilities that can expose data in every computer device that requires a CPU (central processing unit) to function. Both cyber attacks can put every smartphone, computer, server and network at risk of losing all sensitive and important data held in its memory. Though Spectre and Meltdown can […]
Very often a significant security flaw is followed by new derivatives of the same exploit. Following the widely popular Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution attacks, there were predictions that more flaws of similar nature will hit PC owners pretty soon. Variant 4 is the newest addition to this increasing list of vulnerabilities. In a new […]
As has been happening, the problems with the mitigations for the Meltdown fault continue. Recently, information security professional has shown that the Meltdown patch in Windows 10 can be circumvented. Alex Ionescu, a Windows Internals researcher, found that the Meltdown patch issued for Windows 10 is affected by a serious vulnerability that could be exploited to bypass […]
Intel won’t fix Meltdown nor Spectre for 10 product families covering 230-plus CPUs. Intel has issued new “microcode revision guidance” that reveals it won’t address the Meltdown and Spectre design vulnerabilities in all of its vulnerable processors, in some cases because it’s too tricky to remove the Spectre v2 class of vulnerabilities, the information security training researchers […]
Intel has published a microcode update guidance that confirms that it won’t be patching up the Spectre and Meltdown design flaws in all of its processors — mostly the older ones. The company has rolled out microcode updates to fix the Spectre v2 vulnerability for many of its processors going back to the second generation Core […]
Microsoft’s January patch was released amidst claims of addressing the risks associated with attacks like Spectre and Meltdown to Windows-based systems. However, according to an independent Swedish security researcher Ulf Frisk, the patch has made security matters even more complicated especially regarding the memory vulnerabilities connected with Intel’s CPU bug Meltdown. Frisk wrote a detailed […]
Microsoft’s Meltdown fix opened a gaping hole in Windows 7 security, warn researchers. Meltdown and Specter are probably the worst vulnerabilities discovered in the history of computing. These two security flaws were made public earlier this year and affect virtually all modern processors to be related to the way in which the Kernel and the […]
The only thing that’s worse than not installing the latest security patch for your insecure computer is installing a fix that ends up opening new loopholes. This might sound like fiction, but it’s reality in case of Meltdown patches released for Windows 7. As per Swedish security researcher Ulf Frisk, Microsoft’s Meltdown patch from January […]
In the computer security world, once a vulnerability is found it doesn’t take much longer for the security researchers to find similar flaws and propose new attack mechanisms. The researchers at College of William and Mary, University of California Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, and Binghamton University, have found a new Spectre-like attack. Before I go ahead and […]
The Spectre and Meltdown debacle from earlier this year has forced Intel to make some major changes in its chips to mitigate the critical vulnerabilities that exist at the processor level. Keeping up their promise, Intel has announced that they have “redesigned parts of the processor to introduce new levels of protection through partitioning that will […]
Crooks trying to take advantage of the infamous bug Meltdown and Spectre which affects almost all the modern processors and pushes Smoke Loader malware as a patch. Security researchers from Malwarebytes spotted a phishing campaign targetted German users appears to come from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). Researchers said “the domain was […]
One of the most common tactics employed by notorious cybercriminals involves taking advantage of the popular trends and creating fraudulent websites/apps to trick users. It looks like some of the players have tried to exploit the confusion surrounding Meltdown and Sprectre CPU bugs. Forget buggy updates which are causing numerous problems to the users, Malwarebytes has […]
The CEO of one of the world’s prominent chipmakers, Brian Krzanich of Intel, took to the platform at a keynote at CES to say a few messages about the news before launching into his planned publications covering areas like automotive, AI and entertainment. “I want to thank the business for coming together to address the recent security, […]
The recently known Meltdown and Spectre bugs have affected numerous devices including Linux systems. Companies have started to release software patches to address the bugs, but the outcome is not as intended. What was intended to fix serious vulnerabilities in Intel chips is leaving users with new problems. Some Ubuntu users have reported on Ubuntu […]