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SLAP/FLOP: Apple Silicon’s ‘Son of Spectre’ Critical Flaws

Richi Jennings | January 29, 2025 | Apple, apple bug, Apple Data Security, Apple Silicon, ARM, Arm CPU Attack, arm64, Daniel Genkin, FLOP, iPad, iPhone, Jalen Chuang, Jason Kim, Mac, SB Blogwatch, Side-Channel, side-channel attack, side-channel attacks, SLAP, Spectre, Spectre attack, Spectre variant, speculative execution, Yuval Yarom

Watch this: Want more “speculative execution” bugs? You’re gonna be in a great mood all day ...

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Apple M-Series FAIL: GoFetch Flaw Finds Crypto Keys

Richi Jennings | March 22, 2024 | Apple, apple bug, Apple Data Security, apple hack, apple hacker, Apple iOS, Apple iPad, ARM, cache, dmp, GoFetch, iPad, M1, M2, M3, Macintosh, macos, SB Blogwatch

GoFAIL: Researchers worm their way into broken cache-filling microcode in most Macs and iPads ...

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#iLeakage: All Apple CPUs Vulnerable — No Patch in Sight

Richi Jennings | October 26, 2023 | Apple Safari, ARM, Daniel Genkin, iLeakage, ios, macos, mobile safari, Safari, SB Blogwatch, Spectre, speculative execution, Webkit, WebKit engine

Son of Spectre: No fix for iOS, “unstable” workaround for macOS ...

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Broken ARM: Mali Malware Pwns Phones

Richi Jennings | October 3, 2023 | android, ARM, CVE-2023-33200, CVE-2023-34970, CVE-2023-4211, GPU, hardware supply chain, Linux, Mali, open source software supply chain, SB Blogwatch, software supply chain, software supply chain risk, Software Supply Chain risks, software supply chain security, Software Supply Chain Security Risks

Exploited in the wild: Yet more use-after-free vulns in Arm’s Mali GPU driver ...

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Apple M1 Flaw Can’t be Fixed — PACMAN Panic

Richi Jennings | June 13, 2022 | Apple, ARM, M1, PACMAN, SB Blogwatch, speculative execution, Yo dawg we heard you had a vulnerability mitigator so we designed a vulnerability to mitigate your vulnerability mitigator

Apple’s M1 chip isn’t as safe from buffer overflows as previously thought. M1 and other designs based on ARMv8.3 can have their ‘PAC’ protection neutered ...

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Wait, What? Nvidia/ARM Sale on Hold—for Security Reasons

Richi Jennings | April 20, 2021 | ARM, national security policy, Nvidia, SB Blogwatch, Softbank, uk

The government of the United Kingdom is investigating the proposed “merger” of ARM and Nvidia, on national security grounds ...

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A Hacker’s Tour of the X86 CPU Architecture

Travis Phillips | April 20, 2021 | analysis, Apple, architecture, ARM, cpu, eflags, Endian, M1, payload, Penetration Testing, Professionally Evil, Registers, Reverse Engineering, Reviews, Secure Ideas, segments, shellcode, x86

Overview The Intel x86 CPU architecture is one of the most prolific CPU architectures for desktops, laptops, and servers. While other architectures exist and are even taking some market share with mobile ...

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Solving the November 13th Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge

Travis Phillips | December 3, 2020 | .gdb, ARM, ASM, challenge, debug, debugging, Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge, Linux, payload, Penetration Testing, Professionally Evil, programming, Pwntools, Reverse Engineering, Write-up

Overview Each week on Friday, we post a social media challenge known as “Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge”. On November 13th of 2020, we released a challenge that contained a payload and it ...

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Solving the November 13th Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge

Overview Each week on Friday, we post a social media challenge known as “Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge”. On November 13th of 2020, we released a challenge that contained a payload and it ...

Professionally Evil Insights

Arm Bolsters IoT Security Testing

Michael Vizard | February 26, 2019 | ARM, Internet of things, iot, IoT hardware, IoT Security

Arm, in collaboration with a variety of testing partners, has announced a series of certifications intended to make sure internet of things (IoT) platforms built using its processors are secure. In 2017 ...

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Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On