IEEE Spectrum  January 4, 2018 Meltdown and Spectre flaws take advantage of the processors’ hardware rather than a software flaw, so they circumvent security schemes built into major operating systems. An international team of researchers (Australia, USA – University of Pennsylvania, industry partners) found that Meltdown breaks the most fundamental isolation between user applications and the operating system. This attack allows a program to access the memory, and thus also the secrets, of other programs and the operating system. Spectre is potentially wider reaching because it breaks the isolation between different applications. It allows an attacker to trick error-free programs, which follow […]

MIT Technology Review   January 2, 2018 Hackers are constantly finding new targets and refining the tools they use to break through cyberdefenses. From AI-powered hacking to tampering with voting systems, here are some of the big risks on our radar screen – More huge data breaches, Ransomware in the cloud, The weaponization of AI, Cyber-physical attacks, Mining cryptocurrencies, Hacking elections (again!). Read more at MIT Technology Review