Intel

Innovative Encryption Solutions to Help Prevent Side Channel Attacks

| | encryption, Intel, side-channel attacks
Encryption is an essential element of effective cybersecurity and data protection. Only systems or individuals with the correct encryption keys are able to decipher and view the encrypted data. Of course, attackers ...
Security – TechSpective

Intel Hardware CTF Competitions Drive Innovation for Next-Gen Secure Computing Platforms

| | Capture the Flag, Intel, Security Awareness, Security Research
The concept of capture the flag competitions goes back hundreds of years from a military perspective, and it has become a staple of hacking and cybersecurity exercises. The basic concept pits teams ...
Security – TechSpective
Intel

BleedingTooth: Intel Discloses Early, Angering Linux Lovers

| | BleedingTooth, bluetooth, BlueZ, Intel, Linux, SB Blogwatch
A Google researcher discovered a high-severity vulnerability in the Linux Bluetooth stack ...
Security Boulevard
BlindSide

BlindSide: Intel/AMD Speculation Bugs Under Microscope Again

| | AMD, ASLR, BlindSide, cpu, Intel, SB Blogwatch, Spectre, speculative execution
Researchers have published frightening details on what they’re calling BlindSide, which relies on co-opting our old friend speculative execution ...
Security Boulevard

Intel Shares Security Insights in Unique Virtual Event

| | Compute Lifecycle Assurance Initiative, Data breach, Intel, Security Awareness
Virtual Panel Event Complete with Drinks, Snacks, and Trivia When the world gives you lemons, make lemonade. Many vendors did just that around the time of what would normally have been the ...
Security – TechSpective
Intel

Intel Leak: 20GB of Secrets Just the Start, Says Perp

| | Data breach, Intel, SB Blogwatch, Tillie Kottmann
A large cache of confidential documents has been exfiltrated from Intel and leaked ...
Security Boulevard

Tom Garrison Discusses Preventing Exploits with Intel CET

| | Inner Circle, Intel, Intel CET, Malware, Podcasts, TechSpective podcast
TechSpective Podcast Episode 049 Malware is a massive problem that costs businesses around the world billions of dollars every year. Much of the effort to fight malware is a simple game of ...
Security – TechSpective

Another Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability

| | Exploits, Hacking, hardware, Intel, keys, sidechannelattacks, Vulnerabilities
Remember Spectre and Meltdown? Back in early 2018, I wrote: Spectre and Meltdown are pretty catastrophic vulnerabilities, but they only affect the confidentiality of data. Now that they -- and the research ...
Schneier on Security

Microsoft Leans on Intel to power Azure Confidential Computing

| | Azure DCsv2-Series, Cloud Security, Data Loss Protection, data protection, encryption, Intel, Intel SGX, Microsoft
Intel is a sponsor of TechSpective Data is the fuel that drives business, which is why it’s also a primary target. Protecting data has always been a challenge, but cloud computing, containers, ...
Security – TechSpective

Attack Against PC Thunderbolt Port

| | Hacking, Intel, Linux, physicalsecurity, Windows
The attack requires physical access to the computer, but it's pretty devastating: On Thunderbolt-enabled Windows or Linux PCs manufactured before 2019, his technique can bypass the login screen of a sleeping or ...
Schneier on Security
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