New Variant of Spectre Attack Bypasses Intel and Arm Hardware Mitigations
A team of researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands has demonstrated a new Spectre attack variant that can bypass hardware mitigations...
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100 Million Samsung Galaxy Phones Affected with Flawed Hardware Encryption Feature
A group of academics from Tel Aviv University have disclosed details of now-patched “severe” design flaws affecting about 100 million Android-based Samsung smartphones that...
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Hardware Security Firm Axiado Banks $25M Investment
Axiado Corp, a hardware security firm based in San Jose, Calif., has banked $25 million in what is being described as an “oversubscribed” Series...
MITRE, CISA Announce 2021 List of Most Common Hardware Weaknesses
MITRE and the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have announced the release of the “2021 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Most Important Hardware...
Researchers Create Toolkit for Hardware Security Tests on Apple’s Mobile Processors
A group of researchers from North Carolina State University has built a software toolkit to explore vulnerabilities in Apple’s mobile processors and used the...
Taiwanese Computer Hardware Company Gigabyte Suffers Ransomware Attack – E Hacking News
Gigabyte, a motherboard developing company from Taiwan and also a hardware giant was attacked by the RansomExx ransomware hacking group, who has blackmailed...
Best bitcoin hardware wallet in 2021
If you dabble in bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, then you may be able to get away with storing your private keys in a software...
Should you worry about hackers cloning your 2FA hardware security keys?
Hardware security keys, such as the Google Titan, have become a cornerstone of enterprise security, adding a much-needed layer of protection on top of...
DHS warns against using Chinese hardware and digital services
Image: Martin Abegglen (Flickr/CC2.0) The US Department of Homeland Security has published a “business advisory” today warning US companies against using hardware equipment and...
Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers via Wi-Fi Signals (Without Wi-Fi Hardware)
A security researcher has demonstrated that sensitive data could be exfiltrated from air-gapped computers via a novel technique that leverages Wi-Fi signals as a...