Two separate teams of academic researchers on Wednesday published papers describing flaws in Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX). SGX, a set of instructions, enhances application security by ...

Intended to help users keep their systems safe and secure, Intel Software Guard Extensions is a set of CPU instructions that can make particular portions of code and data private. However, a new paper ...

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A new variant of the Spectre attack on Intel CPUs can be used to crack open Intel's secure enclaves to view their memory. The so-called SgxPectre side-channel attack affects programs with sensitive ...

Intel recently revealed another major vulnerability within its Core and Xeon processors and is now closely working with other vendors for coordinated disclosure. Also known as L1 Terminal Fault, ...

A team of academics has found a way to abuse Intel SGX enclaves to hide malicious code from security software and to allow the creation of what researchers are calling "super-malware." Intel Software ...