The Pluton security processor is a big investment (Photo courtesy of Microsoft). Microsoft’s new ‘Pluton’ security processor gets buy-in from Intel, AMD It's an ambitious project inspired by the infamous Spectre and Meltdown flaws. Nov 17, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas
(Getty Images) DARPA invites hackers to break hardware to make it more secure Software bug bounties are ubiquitous in the cybersecurity industry, but those focused on hardware are rarer. Jun 8, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas
(Getty Images) Intel pushes for hardware-specific additions to vulnerability taxonomy A new proposal is an outgrowth of the Spectre and Meltdown revelations from January 2018. Jan 15, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas
Intel Xeon CPU on a computer motherboard. The Xeon is a brand of microprocessors manufactured by Intel Corporation, targeted at the server system markets. The company and a group of researchers found another round of flaw in Intel hardware. (Getty) After Meltdown and Spectre, meet a new set of Intel chip flaws Intel and a group of cybersecurity researchers published details on four new potential chip attacks that exploit the speculative execution process. May 14, 2019 By Sean Lyngaas
(Flickr user lungstruck // CC-BY-2.0) Jolted by Meltdown and Spectre, Intel aims to accelerate patching process For Intel, the Spectre and Meltdown saga drove home the fact that “we weren’t making it easy on our customers to take what we were giving them… May 3, 2019 By Sean Lyngaas
(Daniel Oines / Flickr) Foreshadow, the new data-stealing vulnerabilities impacting Intel chips Also known as the L1 Terminal Fault, this flaw is the latest round of attacks stemming from exploitation of speculative execution. Aug 14, 2018 By Patrick Howell O'Neill
(Stephen Shankland / Flickr) Google Chrome shifts browser architecture to thwart Spectre attacks Google Chrome is enabling a new security feature in response to the set of speculative execution side-channel attacks known as Spectre and Meltdown. Jul 11, 2018 By Patrick Howell O'Neill
(Flickr user lungstruck // CC-BY-2.0) Senators question vulnerability disclosure process after Spectre and Meltdown stumbles U.S. senators expressed concern that shortcomings in the industry-led process for disclosing software and hardware bugs could rear their head again. Jul 11, 2018 By Sean Lyngaas
(Flickr user lungstruck // CC-BY-2.0) Tech giants reveal new variant of Meltdown and Spectre vulns The new vulnerability, dubbed “Variant 4,” can be exploited through JavaScript in a web browser to steal data. May 21, 2018 By Sean Lyngaas
(Getty Images) DARPA is looking to avoid another version of Meltdown or Spectre The Pentagon's R&D wing has contracted Tortuga Logic to develop hardware security tools that use commercial testing platforms to catch vulnerabilities in computer chips. Apr 4, 2018 By Sean Lyngaas