National Semiconductor has developed a high-speed alternative to PC buses to hook up multimedia peripherals to the processor in Internet access devices. The company's approach builds on the idea of ...

Since Spectre was discovered, the world's most talented computer scientists from industry and academia have worked on software patches and hardware defenses, confident they've been able to protect the ...

In 2018, industry and academic researchers revealed a potentially devastating hardware flaw that made computers and other devices worldwide vulnerable to attack. Researchers named the vulnerability ...

The revelations by Google’s Project Zero team earlier this year of the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution vulnerabilities in most of processors that have powered servers and PCs for the past ...

While robust passwords help you secure your valuable online accounts, hardware-based two-factor authentication takes that security to the next level. Read now Academics have developed a new technique ...

A new speculative execution attack named "TIKTAG" targets ARM's Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) to leak data with over a 95% chance of success, allowing hackers to bypass the security feature. The ...

A new hardware attack targeting Pointer Authentication in Apple M1 CPUs with speculative execution enables attackers to gain arbitrary code execution on Mac systems. Pointer Authentication is a ...