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Lenovo Patches High-Severity Arbitrary Code Execution Flaws

March 15, 2019 TH Author Intel, intel CSME, intel firmware, Lenovo, Lenovo ideapad, Lenovo patch, Mobile Security, Vulnerabilities, Vulnerability

Lenovo has issued patches for several serious vulnerabilities in its products stemming from Intel technology fixes. READ MORE HERE…

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Intel Windows 10 Graphics Drivers Riddled With Flaws

March 13, 2019 TH Author cpu flaw, Intel, intel graphics driver, Intel Vulnerability, Microsoft, patch, Vulnerabilities, Windows 10

Intel has patched several high-severity vulnerabilities in its graphics drivers for Windows 10, which could lead to code execution. READ MORE HERE…

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RSAC 2019: Picking Apart the Foreshadow Attack

March 5, 2019 TH Author Foreshadow, Hacks, Intel, Meltdown, patch, RSA 2019, RSAC, Spectre, speculative execution

Raoul Strackx, one of the researchers who discovered the Foreshadow speculative execution vulnerability, talks at RSA about the Catch-22 issue when it comes to fixing speculative execution flaws. READ MORE HERE…

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PortSmash Side-Channel Attack Siphons Data From Intel, Other CPUs

November 5, 2018 TH Author AMD, CPU, CVE-2018-5407, Data, Hacks, Hyper-Threading, Intel, Meltdown, side-channel, Side-channel attack, SMT, Spectre, TLBleed, Vulnerabilities

An exploit was released for a flaw existing in a process in CPUs called Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT). READ MORE HERE…

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New Ninth-Gen Intel CPUs Shield Against Some Spectre, Meltdown Variants

October 9, 2018 TH Author CPU, Intel, intel Cannonlake, L1TF, Meltdown, Spectre, virtual fences, Vulnerabilities

New Intel Coffee Lake CPUs offer hardware-based protections against some -but not all- Spectre and Meltdown variants. READ MORE HERE…

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Intel Smart Sound Tech Vulnerable to Three High-Severity Bugs

July 25, 2018 TH Author Atom, buffer overflow attack, Cortana, Hacks, Intel, Intel Core, Intel Smart Sound Technology, non-paged pool overflow, Nuance Dragon, skype, voice commands, Vulnerabilities

Intel patches three flaws that could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on impacted systems. READ MORE HERE…

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New Spectre-Level Flaw Targets Return Stack Buffer

July 23, 2018 TH Author Hacks, Intel, Meltdown, RSB Stuffing, Spectre, Spectre patch, SpectreRSB, Variant 4, Vulnerabilities

The most recent Spectre-class flaw targets a component in CPUs called the return stack buffer. READ MORE HERE…

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Spectre Will Haunt Us For a Long Time

July 23, 2018 TH Author chipmakers, Critical Infrastructure, infosec insider, Intel, long term effects, Meltdown, Mobile Security, os, Patches, performance, Spectre, virsec, Vulnerabilities, Web Security

These vulnerabilities have existed for over 20 years, and we are not even close to closing the door on these significant risks. READ MORE HERE…

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Chrome Now Features Site Isolation to Defend Against Spectre

July 12, 2018 TH Author chrome, Chrome 67, Google Chrome, Intel, Meltdown, Site Isolation, Spectre, spectre attack, Vulnerabilities, Web Security

A new feature called site isolation is being tapped to protect Chrome users against Spectre. READ MORE HERE…

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Intel’s ‘Virtual Fences’ Spectre Fix Won’t Protect Against Variant 4

May 24, 2018 TH Author Intel, Intel Chip, Intel mitigation, Meltdown, Security, Spectre, Variant 4, Variant 4 mitigation, Vulnerabilities, Web Security

The new hardware-based protections Intel announced earlier in March it was embedding into new chips will only protect against Spectre and Meltdown – but not the newly disclosed Variant 4, sources said. READ MORE HERE…

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