Tagged: Hardware Security
The Hidden Threat in Silicon A hidden circuit inside a processor can remain dormant for years. Consequently, chip designers face severe security risks from untrusted third-party vendors. Indeed, malicious suppliers can easily hide hardware...
A computational architecture may fall under alien subjugation due to a ubiquitous utility pre-installed “from the factory.” A profound vulnerability has been unearthed within the GIGABYTE Control Center—the very orchestration suite through which proprietors...
Economical IP-KVM apparatuses, which facilitate remote, hardware-level dominion over computers, have emerged as a formidable peril to corporate network architectures. The vanguard at Eclypsium has unearthed nine distinct vulnerabilities spanning four disparate manufacturers. This...
Intel Corporation and Google have concluded a collaborative security audit focusing on a cornerstone of Trusted Execution Technology (TEE) utilized to fortify data within cloud ecosystems and virtualized environments. The investigation scrutinized the Intel...
Researchers at ETH Zurich have unveiled a novel attack against AMD’s SEV-SNP hardware isolation mechanism, enabling a hypervisor-level adversary to extract sensitive data from protected virtual machines. Dubbed Heracles, the attack demonstrates how to...