Intel announced that it has signed an agreement with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to perform in its Data Protection in Virtual Environments (DPRIVE) program. The program aims to develop an accelerator for fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). Microsoft is the key cloud ecosystem and homomorphic encryption partner leading theRead More…

Bitdefender, the innovative cybersecurity solutions provider protecting 500 million machines worldwide, has discovered a new security vulnerability that affects all modern Intel CPUs which leverage speculative-execution, potentially letting hackers access passwords, tokens, private conversations, encryption and other sensitive data of both home and enterprise users. Every machine using newer IntelRead More…

Intel has revealed a new class of vulnerabilities impacting all modern Intel chips, which can potentially leak sensitive data from a system’s CPU. Company officials said that the flaws, named Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS), comprise four different attacks, all of which depend on different ways side channel attacks to stealRead More…

Intel updated its bug bounty program to offer USD 250,000 until December 31, 2018, and it is now been converted from invitation-only program to an open for all program, meaning now any security researcher can be part of it, thereby significantly expanding the pool of eligible researchers to work on mitigating the vulnerabilities found inRead More…

Microsoft believes the Meltdown and Spectre fixes will slow down servers drastically and reduce the performance of personal computers as well. In a blog post, the firm suggested that the slowdowns from the Meltdown and Spectre fixes could be a lot more extensive than Intel suggested previously.  Read More…