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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 06:26:00 -0800

Apple has confirmed that all Macs, iPhones, iPads and other devices (bar Apple Watch) are vulnerable to the newly-revealed Spectre and Meltdown Intel, ARM and AMD processor vulnerabilities.

What’s the problem?

Taking advantage of a vulnerability that has been around for 20-years, Meltdown and Spectre exploit a CPU performance feature called “speculative execution”. Speculative execution exists to improve computer speed by enabling the processor to work on multiple instructions at once, sometimes in non-sequential order.

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Kaspersky Security

January 5, 2018 admin

Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 18

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:23:48 +0000

In this week’s edition of Kaspersky Lab’s podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss Alexa ads and helping police, Intel’s “meltdown,” and more.

Fortinet Security

January 4, 2018 admin

Fortinet Advisory on New Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Fortinet| Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 18:45:59 +0000

Earlier this week, it was announced that researchers uncovered two new side channel attacks that exploit newly discovered vulnerabilities found in most CPU processors, including those from Intel, AMD, and ARM. These vulnerabilities allow malicious userspace processes to read kernel memory, thereby potentially causing sensitive kernel information to leak. These vulnerabilities are known as Meltdown and Spectre.

Independent Securiteam

January 4, 2018 admin

Know your community – Sergi Alvarez AKA Pancake

Credit to Author: SSD / Maor Schwartz| Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:13:19 +0000

The creator of Radare2, vulnerability researcher, chef and a family man – meet Sergi Alvarez also known as Pancake! Questions Q: How many years have you been working in the security field? A: I started programming BASIC in Spectrum and PC/M. Then I switched to MSDOS and assembly (TASM) as a main language. From there … Continue reading Know your community – Sergi Alvarez AKA Pancake

Independent Securiteam

January 4, 2018 admin

Happy New Year – 2018

Credit to Author: SSD / Noam Rathaus| Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 14:35:57 +0000

Happy new year everyone! Hope you had the chance to celebrate and think about all the good things that happened to you in 2017. We have a nice surprise for you – this link is worth 1,000$ USD !* *You don’t need to hack the website, the money is out there in the link* We … Continue reading Happy New Year – 2018

ScadaICS Schneider

January 4, 2018 admin

What’s Unique about DMaaS?

Credit to Author: Scott Cassidy| Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:04:32 +0000

While the branding of EcoStruxureTM IT is a relatively new announcement, Schneider Electric’s cloud-based services based on DCIM software, were launched during 2016. However, Data Center Management-as-a-service, or DMaaS, differs… Read more »

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ScadaICS Schneider

January 4, 2018 admin

How Cooperation and Trade Associations Push the Semiconductor Industry Forward

Credit to Author: Nadia Cheraitia| Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:00:44 +0000

The semiconductor industry is big – estimated to top $339 billion in annual sales in 2017. What’s more, many of the players that dominate semiconductor design and fabrication are also… Read more »

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ScadaICS Schneider

January 4, 2018 admin

Is Digitization and IoT a new thing? Not if you come from industrial automation.

Credit to Author: Fabio Mielli| Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 22:28:27 +0000

Everywhere and every day we are overwhelmed by articles and talks about the IoT, connectivity, big data, the digital transformation and all the benefits we can derive from this innovative,… Read more »

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