A shuttered Coop supermarket store is pictured in Stockholm, Sweden on July 3, 2021, during an ongoing “colossal” cyber-attack affecting organizations around the world. (Photo by ALI LORESTANI/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images) Malware spammers aim to leverage Kaseya ransomware drama in email campaign Big attacks can have long tails. Jul 7, 2021 By Tim Starks
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
NetSpectre attack can exploit CPUs to leak information remotely, researchers say NetSpectre is an attack that can exploit CPUs to leak information remotely, unlike the original Spectre attack (but it's super slow). Jul 27, 2018 By Zaid Shoorbajee
(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