Tag: Computer Hardware
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Hands up who HASN’T sued Intel over Spectre, Meltdown chip flaws
Intel says it is facing 32 separate class-action lawsuits following the revelations it shipped millions of processors with security design …
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Don’t panic about the new ‘Prime’ Meltdown and Spectre CPU exploits
The news sounds bad at first blush: Researchers from Nvidia and Princeton University have discovered fresh ways to exploit the Meltdown and …
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Coinming frenzy is making it hard for us to find aliens
Forget Iceland’s energy getting sucked up by cryptocoin miners. We can’t find the …
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Cryptomining malware continues to drain enterprise CPU power
Cryptomining malware continues to impact organizations globally as 23% were affected by the Coinhive variant during January 2018, according …
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Hate to ruin your day, but… Boffins cook up fresh Meltdown, Spectre CPU design flaw exploits
When details of the Meltdown and Spectre CPU security vulnerabilities emerged last month, the researchers involved hinted that further …
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Watch our ads or we’ll use your CPU for cryptomining
From this week, visitors to the Salon news site who are running an adblocker have been confronted with a novel choice: turn off your …
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VMware Named a Leader in 2018 Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure
VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) today announced that VMware has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s 2018 Magic …
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Hackers targeted UK gov websites to mine cryptocurrency
It seems that we won’t be escaping the cryptocurrency headlines anytime soon, as this week the UK government suffered from a major …
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How to find your motherboard’s Spectre CPU fix
Operating system patches alone can protect against the nasty Meltdown flaw affecting Intel processors, but fixing Spectre—Meltdown’s …
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Linux Meltdown patch: ‘Up to 800 percent CPU overhead’, Netflix tests show
Video: Fake Meltdown-Spectre patch emails hiding Smoke Loader malware Meltdown-Spectre …
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Motherboard Files Legal Complaint Against Metropolitan Police for Malware Purchase
Motherboard has filed a formal complaint with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and an independent government body, calling for an …
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iOS ‘iBoot’ source code posted online, Apple issues DMCA takedown notice
The source code for Apple’s iOS ‘iBoot’ secure bootloader has been leaked to GitHub. As its name suggests, iBoot is a piece of …
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