(Flickr user Thomas Hawk / CC-BY-2.0) Microsoft banks on new silicon chips built by Intel, others to fend off firmware attacks The timing of this effort roughly coincides with a similar plan at the U.S. National Security Agency. Oct 21, 2019 By Jeff Stone
Pat Gelsinger speaks Oct. 2, 2019, at the VMware Public Sector Innovation Summit presented by FedScoop and StateScoop. (Scoop News Group) VMware CEO: The security industry has ‘failed its customers’ Pat Gelsinger told a crowd in Washington, D.C., what needs to change if companies are going to truly protect their customers. Oct 2, 2019 By Greg Otto
Richard Zhu, left, and Amat Cama celebrate one of their successes on the first day of the 2019 Pwn2Own competition in Vancouver. (Zero Day Initiative / YouTube) Apple, Oracle, VMware products successfully hacked at Pwn2Own Thursday's slate of demonstrations includes more attacks against web browsers — this time, it's Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge. Mar 21, 2019 By Joe Warminsky