Security
As part of this week's MWC 2024 conference, Intel is announcing that it is adding support for its vPro security technologies to select 14th Generation Core series processors (Raptor Lake-R) and their latest Meteor Lake-based Core Ultra-H and U series mobile processors. As we've seen from more launches than we care to count of Intel's desktop and mobile platforms, they typically roll out their vPro platforms sometime after they've released their full stack of processors, including overclockable K series SKUs and lower-powered T series SKUs, and this year is no exception. Altogether, Intel is announcing vPro Essential and vPro Enterprise support for several 14th Gen Core series SKUs and Intel Core Ultra mobile SKUs. Intel's vPro security features is something we've covered previously – and...
Intel Unveils vPro for 13th Gen Core Series: Enhanced Security For Raptor Lake
In a world that has seen various security breaches at several top companies and supposedly secure companies through hackers and exploiters, the onus isn't only on software developers to...
23 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/23/2023
AMD Issues Updated Speculative Spectre Security Status: Predictive Store Forwarding
The mention of Spectre and Meltdown is enough to send chills down any InfoSec spine. A number of these batches of security vulnerabilities deal with speculative execution, and how...
63 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/8/2021
Intel to Build Silicon for Fully Homomorphic Encryption: This is Important
When considering data privacy and protections, there is no data more important than personal data, whether that’s medical, financial, or even social. The discussions around access to our data...
31 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/8/2021
Intel Launches 11th Gen vPro For Tiger Lake Mobile CPUs, Adds CET Security Tech
Among Intel’s CES 2021 announcements this afternoon, the chip giant is using the annual show to launch their updated vPro platform for their latest-generation “Tiger Lake” Core processors. vPro...
1 by Ryan Smith on 1/11/2021
“Microsoft Pluton Hardware Security Coming to Our CPUs”: AMD, Intel, Qualcomm
One of the key tenets of having good security is reducing how attackable your system is. This is what we call an attack surface – a system needs as...
27 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/23/2020
IBM and AMD to Advance Confidential Computing
Earlier this year, we wrote a news segment about AMD and Google’s announcement about bringing confidential virtual machines to the cloud using features enabled through 2nd Gen AMD EPYC...
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/11/2020
Western Digital Launches Security Platform for Portable Storage with G-Technology's ArmorLock-Encrypted NVMe SSD
Data safety is of paramount importance for many enterprise use-cases, and in certain scenarios, for home consumers too. Portable storage devices have typically offered data protection in the form...
4 by Ganesh T S on 9/3/2020
Intel Updates ISA Manual: New Instructions for Alder Lake, also BF16 for Sapphire Rapids
As with any processor vendor, having a detailed list of what the processor does and how to optimize for it is important. Helping programmers also plan for what’s coming...
34 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/1/2020
Cherry’s Secure Board 1.0 Encrypts Every Keystroke & Has Smart Card Reader
Security is one of the primary concerns for many organizations these days, so makers of hardware and software have been responding in-kind with new security features baked into their...
24 by Anton Shilov on 12/3/2019
Vulnerability in AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization for EPYC: Update Now to Build 22
One of the key elements of building a processor is that designing a secure product involves reducing the ‘attack surface’ as much as possible: the fewer ways an attack...
35 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/26/2019
HP’s Endpoint Security Controller: More Details About A New Chip in HP Notebooks
One of HP’s key announcements this spring was its revamped security initiative for PCs that includes hardware, software, and deep learning-based approaches. The software and DL parts of the...
33 by Anton Shilov on 5/2/2019
HP’s Security Push: Sure Sense & Endpoint Security Controller
Antivirus software is getting more robust, but so does malware. In a bid to make its PCs more secure, HP is introducing a set of hardware and software-based methods...
34 by Anton Shilov on 4/17/2019
BlackBerry Acquires Cylance, Gets AI & ML Security Technology
BlackBerry Limited has announced that it had completed acquisition of Cylance, a company developing machine learning and artificial intelligence-based security technology. The move adds valuable IP and technologies to...
22 by Anton Shilov on 2/25/2019
Dell EMC’s Older PowerEdge iDRAC BMC Vulnerable to Firmware Replacement Attack
Every modern server is equipped with a baseboard management controller (BMC) that enables its remote management. A BMC is essentially a computer within a computer with its own memory...
2 by Anton Shilov on 10/2/2018
Synaptics' Next-Gen Fingerprint Sensor Security: The FS7600 Match-In-Sensor
Synaptics last month introduced its second-generation match-in-sensor (MIS) solution designed for a wide range of fingerprint sensors including those in PCs and other devices. The new FS7600 MIS relies...
5 by Anton Shilov on 8/6/2018
Synaptics at Computex: Encrypted and In-Display Fingerprint Sensors in Real Products
Synaptics is one of the companies that have to do its announcements in two stages: initially, it announces its own product and then it showcases its partners’ products that...
8 by Anton Shilov on 6/5/2018
Spectre Watch: More Spectre-class CPU Vulnerabilities to be Announced Soon?
This morning has seen an interesting turn of events in the world of processor security. c't magazine has published an exclusive report stating that they got wind of a...
78 by Ryan Smith on 5/3/2018
Intel Announces Chip-Level Security Initiatives, iGPU-Based Malware Scanning
Taking place this week is the annual RSA conference, which has evolved to become a major trade show for security products and technologies. As one might expect, it's also...
36 by Anton Shilov on 4/17/2018
Intel Wraps Up Spectre Patching, Partially Cancels Plans For 1st Gen Core & Core 2 Processors
Intel this week has published an update to their ongoing microcode guidance document. In the roughly 3 weeks since the last update, the company is offering some unexpectedly mixed...
27 by Ryan Smith on 4/4/2018
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