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SGX, Intel’s supposedly impregnable data fortress, has been breached yet again

Enlarge (credit: Intel) Intel’s latest generation of CPUs contains a vulnerability that allows attackers to obtain encryption keys and other confidential information protected by the company’s software guard extensions, the advanced feature that acts as a digital vault for security users’ most sensitive secrets. Abbreviated as SGX, the protection is designed to provide a fortress… Read More »

New Spectre attack once again sends Intel and AMD scrambling for a fix

reader comments 31 with 23 posters participating Share this story Since 2018, an almost endless series of attacks broadly known as Spectre has kept Intel and AMD scrambling to develop defenses to mitigate vulnerabilities that allow malware to pluck passwords and other sensitive information directly out of silicon. Now, researchers say they’ve devised a new… Read More »