Tag: AMD

Newely discovered AMD CPU flaw highlights the risk of running multiple VMs

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A newly discovered vulnerability in AMD chips allows malicious actors to perform remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalation in virtual machines. Cybersecurity researchers from the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany detailed a vulnerability they named StackWarp, Read More …

A new vulnerability in Intel and AMD CPUs lets hackers steal encryption keys

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Microprocessors from Intel, AMD, and other companies contain a newly discovered weakness that remote attackers can exploit to obtain cryptographic keys and other secret data traveling through the hardware, researchers said on Tuesday. Hardware manufacturers have long known that hackers Read More …

7 New Meltdown and Spectre-type CPU Flaws Affect Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs

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Disclosed earlier this year, potentially dangerous Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that affected a large family of modern processors proven that speculative execution attacks can be exploited in a trivial way to access highly sensitive information. Since then, several more variants of speculative Read More …

AMD Acknowledges Newly Disclosed Flaws In Its Processors — Patches Coming Soon

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MD has finally acknowledged 13 critical vulnerabilities, and exploitable backdoors in its Ryzen and EPYC processors disclosed earlier this month by Israel-based CTS Labs and promised to roll out firmware patches for millions of affected devices ‘in the coming weeks.’ Read More …