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Intel, Tech Giants Release Updates to Fix New Chip Flaws

Like the earlier Meltdown and Spectre class of bugs, the new side-channel attacks ZombieLoad, RIDL, and Fallout take advantage of weaknesses in the processor's speculative execution feature to harvest secrets from system memory.

Hardware, Vulnerability

New Side-Channel Attack Extracts Private Keys From Some Qualcomm Chips

Researchers from NCC Group developed an attack that can pull private keys from the hardware-backed keystore in some Qualcomm chips.

Hardware

Scary Hardware Attacks Aren’t The Biggest Risks

Supply chain attacks are scary, but there are plenty of other hardware-based issues organizations should be worrying about before they have to panic about the complex malicious implants in their servers.

Hardware, China

Q&A: Joe FitzPatrick

Hardware security researcher Joe FitzPatrick explains how non-experts should assess claims of hardware implants and backdoors.

Hardware, Q&a

Decipher Podcast: Joe FitzPatrick

Dennis Fisher speaks with hardware security researcher Joe FitzPatrick about finding and verifying hardware implants.

Podcast, Hardware