CyberSecurity Insiders
DECEMBER 6, 2022
To address this threat, organizations of all sizes while conducting a risk assessment need to take into account the vulnerabilities of all third-party software or firmware. Adversaries will increasingly target these suppliers rather than the larger enterprises knowing that they provide a path into multiple partners and customers.
eSecurity Planet
AUGUST 13, 2024
The problem: This week, we have not one but two 18-year-old vulnerabilities: researchers at IOActive discovered a flaw in AMD central processing units that has existed in processors made as early as 2006. It’s only just now been discovered and is known as Sinkclose. This can happen even when SMM is locked.
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eSecurity Planet
AUGUST 13, 2024
The problem: This week, we have not one but two 18-year-old vulnerabilities: researchers at IOActive discovered a flaw in AMD central processing units that has existed in processors made as early as 2006. It’s only just now been discovered and is known as Sinkclose. This can happen even when SMM is locked.
eSecurity Planet
JULY 8, 2024
It’s a regression of an 18-year-old flaw (CVE-2006-5051) that was reintroduced in October 2020. To protect your network devices from potential risks, apply patches on a regular basis and keep their firmware up to date. The fix: Traeger has enabled automated firmware updates for grills using the D2 Wi-Fi Controller.
Notice Bored
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Software, data, metadata and configuration items tucked away in RAM, in firmware, on computer chips and tapes and floppy disks and DVDs. Down here on the Far Side in rural New Zealand, we have struggled with slow, expensive and unreliable Internet access ever since moving out of Wellington in 2006. Check your Y2K inventory for details.
eSecurity Planet
JULY 24, 2023
FIPS-140 became the main input to the international standard ISO/IEC 19790:2006, Security requirements for cryptographic modules , issued in March 2006, so NIST was leading the standards process for much of the world. FIPS 140-2 was issued in May 2001 and FIPS 140-1 was sunsetted a year later. Apple corecrypto Module v11.1
eSecurity Planet
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
This type of rootkit was developed as a proof of concept in 2006, but in 2017, researcher Joseph Connelly designed nested virtual machine rootkit CloudSkulk as part of his Masters degree work at Boise State University. Firmware Rootkit. The rootkit is able to remain hidden because firmware is not usually inspected for code integrity.
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