This is a bit strange. According to a discovery by Bleeping Computer, Intel’s 12th-gen chips don’t support Software Guard Extension (SGX), meaning the chips are unable to play Blu-ray disks in 4K resolution. An explanation was offered via Intel’s website: There is tremendous opportunity for application and solution developers to take charge of their data […]
This is why firmware updates exist. A flaw has been discovered within certain Intel chips that allow an attacker with physical access to the computer, known as an “evil maid attack,” install malicious firmware onto the chip. The flaw was noted by Mark Ermolov, Dmitry Sklyarov (both from Positive Technologies) and Maxim Goryachy (an independent […]
Well, this is sort of a mess. A cybersecurity researcher has claimed that macOS devices with Intel processors and a T2 security chip are vulnerable to an unfixable exploit that could offer attackers root access. The T2 chip, which is found in most modern macOS devices, is an Apple Silicon co-processor that handles boot and […]
If you had a Yahoo account in 2013, there’s a 100 percent chance that you were hacked. Yahoo’s parent company has revealed that the massive data breach that occurred in August of 2013 affective all three billion Yahoo accounts that existed at the time. Previously, Yahoo said the hack affected 1 billion accounts, or a […]
Following up on the large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Friday that temporarily took down large chunks of the Internet, it looks like Apple’s controversial “walled garden” approach to its HomeKit devices may have worked out. As detailed in recent reports, the attack, which also targeted unprotected “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices, focused […]