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6 stories taggedhardware security.
Meltdown and Spectre Opened a Door That Won't Fully Close
Seven years on from the chip flaws that rewrote the rules of hardware security, dozens of variants keep arriving. Here's what ordinary users need to understand about vulnerabilities baked into the silicon itself.
Chip Giants Are Racing to Build Quantum-Proof Encryption Into Hardware
Intel, Nvidia, and IBM are baking next-generation encryption into silicon before quantum computers can crack today's secrets. The window to act is already closing.
A New Security Startup Says AI Chips Have a Blind Spot. It Wants to Fix That.
Stealthium is building tools to spot attacks hiding inside the specialised computer chips that power artificial intelligence, a corner of corporate IT that most security software cannot see.
One Hacked Shark Robot Vacuum Can Hand an Attacker the Keys to Every Shark Vacuum in the Region
A researcher pulled a security key off a $500 robot vacuum and used it to run commands on other people's Shark vacuums, including reading their Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext.
Flipper Zero firmware goes into maintenance mode as company hands the wheel to volunteers
The pocket-sized hacking gadget's maker is shrinking its firmware team and letting the community vote on what gets built next.
usbliter8 Burns a Permanent Hole in A12 and A13 SecureROM
Paradigm Shift's tethered exploit reaches code burned into the silicon, putting a years-long tail on iPhone XS through SE2 boot-chain trust.