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Microsoft patches 34 vulnerabilities, including one zero-day

December 13, 2023 admin AMD, cve-2023-35628, cve-2023-50164, Exploits and vulnerabilities, microsoft, mshtml, news

Microsoft and other vendors have released their rounds of December updates on or before patch Tuesday. Update now!

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Zenbleed: hardware vulnerability in AMD CPUs | Kaspersky official blog

August 18, 2023 admin AMD, Business, CPU, enterprise, vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Enoch Root| Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 18:17:51 +0000

AMD CPU hardware vulnerability Zenbleed (CVE-2023-20593) explained in simple terms.

Security Sophos

A piñata of patches for Microsoft in August

August 9, 2023 admin AMD, cve-2023-20569, cve-2023-38180, Featured, microsoft, Patch Tuesday, threat research

Credit to Author: Angela Gunn| Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:28:41 +0000

A lighter month than July with just 73 fixes on tap, but a phalanx of advisories and third-party alerts will keep sysadmins bashing away

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A week in security (June 27 – July 3)

July 4, 2022 admin a week in security, amazon photos, AMD, astralocker, evilnum, hermit, log4shell, omegle, raccoon stealer, ransomhouse, ransomware, ytstealer, zuorat

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 10:04:58 +0000

The most important and interesting computer security stories from the last week.

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Hertzbleed exposes computers’ secret whispers

June 16, 2022 admin AMD, constant-time code, CPU, cryptography, cve-2022-23823, cve-2022-24436, dvfs, Exploits and vulnerabilities, hertzbleed, Intel, side-channel attack

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 16:28:42 +0000

Hertzbleed is a new side-channel attack that can recover sensitive information from a targeted system by applying CPU timing.

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Microsoft’s Jan. 2018 Patch Tuesday Lowdown

January 10, 2018 admin AMD, blue screen of death, bsod, Flash Player, Intel, Microsoft Patch Tuesday January 2018, Spectre bug, Time to Patch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:07:35 +0000

Microsoft on Tuesday released 14 security updates, including fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown flaws detailed last week, as well as a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office that is being exploited in the wild. Separately, Adobe pushed a security update to its Flash Player software.

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Meltdown and Spectre: what you need to know

January 4, 2018 admin AMD, ARM, Intel, meltdown, memory, processor, Security world, spectre

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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