Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all ...

SGX-Step is an open-source framework to facilitate side-channel attack research on Intel x86 processors in general and Intel SGX platforms in particular. SGX-Step consists of an adversarial Linux ...

AMD's desktop Ryzen processors with more than 8 cores are fabricated using chiplets: one big die handles memory, I/O, and other functions, while smaller dice called "CCDs" contain the Zen CPU cores.

Neptune OS is a Windows NT personality for the seL4 microkernel. It implements what Microsoft calls the "NT Executive", the upper layer of the Windows kernel NTOSKRNL.EXE, as a user process under the ...

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence and have achieved unprecedented success in cognitive tasks such as image and speech recognition. Training of large ...

Please note that the information in this post is current as of the date of this post. Before diving into the technical details, below is a brief summary of the CPUs that are affected by SSB, Microsoft ...

This new hardware vulnerability class represents a major advancement in CPU side channel attacks and we’re sincerely grateful to the researchers who discovered these issues, our industry partners, and ...

At a recent Kennan Institute talk, Vladimir Shamberg, independent scholar, Alexandria, VA, discussed Joseph Stalin and his "inner circle" of close associates who helped him rise to power and occupied ...