Intel has published a fix for a potential vulnerability that affected some Intel processors. The security flaw, named Reptar, causes “very strange behavior,” said Google’s Tavis Ormandy, who is one of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn technical details about this newly disclosed security vulnerability, as well as mitigation recommendations from the Google researcher who discovered it. Google researcher Daniel Moghimi ...

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 ...

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 ...

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What just happened? Potentially concerning news for owners of Intel CPUs launched between 2015 and 2019: a new security vulnerability has been discovered that could allow attackers who share the same ...

Back in 2018, a major security flaw was found in both Intel and ARM chips, which could be exploited by two attacks known as Spectre and Meltdown. It was a huge deal because it was a hardware-level bug ...

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 ...