Nice NAND industry you have there, would be a shame if something happened to it Attempts to reorganize supply chains to cut out China and foil its attempts to build a high-tech chip industry will be costly and may simply cause the Middle Kingdom to redouble its efforts, says …
Nice NAND industry you have there, would be a shame if something happened to it Attempts to reorganize supply chains to cut out China and foil its attempts to build a high-tech chip industry will be costly and may simply cause the Middle Kingdom to redouble its efforts, says …
Gurus say source includes secret hardware info, private signing key for Boot Guard protection Source code for the BIOS used with Intel's 12th-gen Core processors has been leaked online, possibly including details of undocumented model-specific registers (MSRs) and even the private signing key for Intel's Boot Guard security technology …
From small town in North Dakota with a crime problem to file-scrambling nasty Organizations are being warned about a wave of attacks targeting Microsoft SQL Server with ransomware known as Fargo, which encrypts files and threatens victims that their data may be published online if they do not pay …
Bad guy also got SMS verification codes, and re-registered one of the numbers they searched for The security breach at Twilio earlier this month affected at least one high-value customer, Signal, and led to the exposure of the phone number and SMS registration codes for 1,900 users of …
Repurposes logic originally used for spotting variations in voltage, timing in older circuits to help performance Black Hat Intel has disclosed how it may be able to protect systems against some physical threats by repurposing circuitry originally designed to counter variations in voltage and timing that may occur as …
Attack was foiled by content delivery network's hardware security keys Cloudflare says it was subject to a similar attack to one made on comms company Twilio last week, but in this case it was thwarted by hardware security keys that are required to access applications and services.... [...]
Stretching its security software a bit further Amazon’s cloud platform is extending security capabilities for a couple of its widely used services; Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).... [...]
$200 a day buys you 90,000 victims A Russian operated botnet known as RSOCKS has been shut down by the US Department of Justice acting with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. It is believed to have compromised millions of computers and other devices …
OEMs thrown a NetSec Accelerator that plugs into server PCIe slots RSA Conference Intel has released a reference design for a plug-in security card aimed at delivering improved network and security processing without requiring the additional rackspace a discrete appliance would need.... [...]
Nine out of ten organizations would do it all over again, keeping attackers in business Almost nine in 10 organizations that have suffered a ransomware attack would choose to pay the ransom if hit again, according to a new report, compared with two-thirds of those that have not experienced …
SEO techniques employed to increase visibility of poisoned documents claims Netskope Most malware attacks now originate from the same region as the victim, according to a new report, a sign that malicious actors are changing their tactics.... [...]
John Deere rival says it may be days or 'potentially longer' before some production facilities are back in action US agricultural machinery maker AGCO is the latest high-profile organization to fall victim to ransomware, which it says affects operations at some of its worldwide production facilities.... [...]
Tightening of IP laws to prevent poaching seen by Beijing as 'provocative smear' Trouble is brewing over moves by Taiwan to prevent China from gaining access to its chip technology, as the island nation proposes tougher laws to deter the leaking of trade secrets outside the country.... [...]
Repo updates inspected for security blunders before some git can exploit them GitHub is aiming to help users avoid inadvertent leaks of confidential objects like access tokens by scanning repository content for such secrets before a git push is allowed to complete.... [...]
Critical vulnerability may have allowed an attacker to escalate local privileges Users of Western Digital's EdgeRover app for Windows and Mac are advised to download an updated version to avoid a security flaw that might allow an attacker unauthorized access to directories and files.... [...]
Local police want to head off any worries about possible sabotage A Swiss data centre operated by financial messaging service SWIFT is under guard by police following the exclusion of key Russian banks from the system.... [...]
Prototypes now available for testing Arm has made available for testing prototypes of its Morello architecture, aimed at bringing features into the design of CPUs that provide greater robustness and make them resistant to certain attack vectors. If it performs as expected, it will likely become a fundamental part …
French regulator's investigation finds multiple breaches of GDPR SlimPay, a Paris-based subscription payment services company, has been fined €180,000 by the French CNIL regulatory body after it was found to have held sensitive customer data on a publicly accessible server for five years.... [...]