hardware
Cybersecurity Must Prepare for AI Driven Hardware Exploitation
Oh, so you thought Mythos and other AI models would only find vulnerabilities in software? Well, finding weaknesses in firmware and hardware is traditionally much more difficult, requiring specialized skills and in ...
Rowhammer Attack Against NVIDIA Chips
A new rowhammer attack gives complete control of NVIDIA CPUs. On Thursday, two research teams, working independently of each other, demonstrated attacks against two cards from Nvidia’s Ampere generation that take GPU ...
US Bans All Foreign-Made Consumer Routers
This is for new routers; you don’t have to throw away your existing ones: The Executive Branch determination noted that foreign-produced routers (1) introduce “a supply chain vulnerability that could disrupt the ...
New Attacks Against Secure Enclaves
Encryption can protect data at rest and data in transit, but does nothing for data in use. What we have are secure enclaves. I’ve written about this before: Almost all cloud services ...
Apple’s New Memory Integrity Enforcement
Apple has introduced a new hardware/software security feature in the iPhone 17: “Memory Integrity Enforcement,” targeting the memory safety vulnerabilities that spyware products like Pegasus tend to use to get unauthorized system ...
Hacking the Hardware Brains of Computers is the Ultimate Cyberattack
Compromising the hardware layer, especially the CPU, is the Holy Grail of cyberattacks. Recent work by Christiaan Beek, a leading cybersecurity researcher at Rapid7, into developing a ransomware proof-of-concept that infects at ...
Hardware Vulnerability in Apple’s M-Series Chips
It’s yet another hardware side-channel attack: The threat resides in the chips’ data memory-dependent prefetcher, a hardware optimization that predicts the memory addresses of data that running code is likely to access ...
The Chip War’s Impact on Cybersecurity and the Supply Chain
Semiconductors had their moment in the spotlight during the worst of the pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions. The shortage of semiconductors wreaked havoc on the industries that rely on them, opening up devices ...
Hunter Biden’s Laptop Revisited: What it Means for Cloud Storage
On February 1, 2023, lawyers for first son Hunter Biden took a new approach to the fact that the contents of a laptop he took for repairs and then failed to pick ...
A Basis of Trust For the IoT
In the classic grandchild scam, a con artist poses as an elderly victim’s grandchild over the phone or even in person to get “financial support.” Such scams take advantage of the fact ...
