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High-Risk Overflow Bug in Intel Chips Likely Impacts 100s of PC Models

The old, but newly disclosed, vulnerability is buried deep inside personal computers, servers, and mobile devices, and their supply chains, making remediation a headache.

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Researchers Uncover UEFI Vulnerability Affecting Multiple Intel CPUs

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw in Phoenix SecureCore UEFI firmware that affects multiple families of Intel Core desktop and mobile processors. Tracked as CVE-2024-0762 (CVSS score: 7.5), the "UEFIcanhazbufferoverflow" vulnerability has been described as a case of a buffer overflow stemming from the use of an unsafe variable in the Trusted Platform

IPsec performance on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: A performance analysis of AES-GCM

Testing environmentIn this performance analysis, we investigate various configurations and testing scenarios to showcase IPsec throughput on the latest RHEL 9 platform. Our choice of a modern multicore CPU and the latest stable RHEL aims to represent today's technological capabilities.Hardware configurationDual socket of 28 cores each Intel 4th Generation Xeon Scalable ProcessorHyper-threading enabled (two sockets with 56 logical cores each)Directly connected high-speed 100Gbit Intel E810 network cardsSoftware informationDistribution: RHEL-9.4.0Kernel: 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64NetworkManage

Nvidia Patches High-Severity Flaws in GPU Drivers

Nvidia's latest GPUs are a hot commodity for AI, but security vulnerabilities could expose them to attacks from hackers.

LilacSquid: The stealthy trilogy of PurpleInk, InkBox and InkLoader

Multiple TTPs utilized in this campaign bear some overlap with North Korean APT groups.

IWCC 2024 Call For Papers

The 13th International Workshop on Cyber Crime, or IWCC, 2024 call for papers has been announced. It will take place July 30th through August 2nd, 2024 in Vienna, Austria.

Confidential Containers for Financial Services on Public Cloud

Public clouds provide geo resilience in addition to being cost-effective when compared to on-premise deployments. Regulated industries such as the Financial Services Industry (FSI) traditionally have been unable to take advantage of public clouds since FSI is highly regulated from a security and resiliency standpoint.Confidential computing (CC) and specifically confidential containers (CoCo) in the cloud provide data protection and integrity capabilities, facilitating the migration of financial workloads to the cloud.In this blog we will look at the Financial Services Industry and how it can d

Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader could lead to remote code execution

Other potential code execution vulnerabilities are also present in Weston Embedded µC/HTTP-server, a web server component in Weston Embedded's in-house operating system and an open-source library that processes several types of potentially sensitive medical tests.

TimbreStealer campaign targets Mexican users with financial lures

Talos has observed a phishing spam campaign targeting potential victims in Mexico, luring users to download a new obfuscated information stealer we’re calling TimbreStealer, which has been active since at least November 2023.

Linux 5.6 io_uring Cred Refcount Overflow

Linux versions 5.6 and above appear to suffer from a cred refcount overflow when handling approximately 39 gigabytes of memory usage via io_uring.