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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Critics of voter ID laws have had a difficult time proving their menace in court. A new algorithm could change that.

Security Wired

January 4, 2018 admin

Get a Password Manager. Here’s Where to Start

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:49:05 +0000

How important are password managers? Even their flaws double as reminders why you need one.

Security Wired

January 4, 2018 admin

Critical “Meltdown” and “Spectre” Flaws Breaks Basic Security for Intel, AMD, ARM Computers

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 20:00:02 +0000

Still-unidentified researchers have found a critical chip flaw that developers are scrambling to patch in millions of computers.

Kaspersky Security

January 4, 2018 admin

Xiaomi Mi Robot vacuum cleaner hacked

Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:30:33 +0000

Xiaomi’s robotic vacuum cleaner was hacked by security researchers. However, it proved much more secure than most other smart devices.

MalwareBytes Security

January 4, 2018 admin

Meltdown and Spectre: what you need to know

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:53:24 +0000

2018 gets off to a rough start as manufacturers and software vendors tackle a series of severe bugs called Meltdown and Spectre that affect all modern computers.

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Security TrendMicro

January 4, 2018 admin

Fixing the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: William “Bill” Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)| Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:22:58 +0000

Two days ago, Graz University of Technology published a paper https://spectreattack.com/ describing a pair of attacks on common microprocessors. The underlying vulnerability affects Intel, AMD, and ARM processors. All contemporary microprocessors pre-execute instructions. In other words, the vulnerability bypasses address space isolation. Address space isolation has been a foundation for processor integrity since the 1980s….

QuickHeal Security

January 4, 2018 admin

What do we need to know about the CPU vulnerabilities Meltdown and Spectre?

Credit to Author: Quick Heal Security Labs| Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:02:09 +0000

What exactly is a vulnerability? A security vulnerability (also known as a security hole) is a security flaw detected in a product that may leave it open to hackers and malware. Using such vulnerabilities, attackers can exploit the affected system/product for their profit in various ways. What is an exploit? Exploits…

Kaspersky Security

January 4, 2018 admin

Two severe vulnerabilities found in Intel’s hardware

Credit to Author: Jornt van der Wiel| Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:35:01 +0000

Meltdown and Spectre: the two vulnerabilities that threaten every device on Intel, AMD or ARM processors