Academics from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) have published details last week about a new Spectre-class attack that they call SpectreRSB.
Source: Researchers Detail New CPU Side-Channel Attack Named SpectreRSB
Security software vendor Armis finds that the impact of a 10-year-old security flaw on IoT devices is far broader than initially thought, impacting 496 million IP phones, routers, switches, smart TVs and other devices.
Source: IoT Security Flaw Leaves 496 Million Devices Vulnerable At Businesses: Report
System lets researchers explore phase transitions in a quantum system.
Source: D-Wave’s quantum computer successfully models a quantum system
Campaign delivers fake versions of WhatsApp and Telegram to victims – and those behind it have tried to make it look like a Russian attack when it isn’t.
Source: Hacking campaign targets iPhone users with data-stealing, location-tracking malware | ZDNet
The Site Isolation feature that protects Google’s Chrome browser against Spectre CPU attacks is live for 99 percent of users, but it drives up RAM usage significantly.
Source: Chrome gobbles much more RAM due to Google’s ‘Site Isolation’ protection for Spectre CPU flaws