Security researchers have built a $50 device that can bypass the confidential computing defenses of both Intel and AMD processors used in hardware powering cloud environments, thus allowing attackers ...

The last decade-plus has seen a wealth of advancements designed to secure data at the microprocessor level, but a team of academic researchers recently punched through those defenses with a tiny ...

In the age of cloud computing, protections baked into chips from Intel, AMD, and others are essential for ensuring confidential data and sensitive operations can’t be viewed or manipulated by ...

A senior research scientist at Google has devised new CPU attacks to exploit a vulnerability dubbed Downfall that affects multiple Intel microprocessor families and allows stealing passwords, ...