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“Downfall” bug affects years of Intel CPUs, can leak encryption keys and more

Enlarge / An 8th-generation Intel Core desktop CPU, one of several CPU generations affected by the Downfall bug. Mark Walton reader comments 43 with It’s a big week for CPU security vulnerabilities. Yesterday, different security researchers published details on two different vulnerabilities, one affecting multiple generations of Intel processors and another affecting the newest AMD… Read More »

Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix

reader comments 81 with A recently disclosed bug in many of AMD’s newer consumer, workstation, and server processors can cause the chips to leak data at a rate of up to 30 kilobytes per core per second, writes Tavis Ormandy, a member of Google’s Project Zero security team. Executed properly, the so-called “Zenbleed” vulnerability (CVE-2023-20593)… Read More »