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Category: Digital Forensics

New Intel CPU Vulnerability ‘Indirector’ Exposes Sensitive Data

New Intel CPU Vulnerability ‘Indirector’ Exposes Sensitive Data

Modern CPUs from Intel, including Raptor Lake and Alder Lake, have been found vulnerable to a new side-channel attack that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from the processors. The attack, codenamed Indirector by security researchers Luyi Li, Hosein Yavarzadeh, and Dean Tullsen, leverages shortcomings identified in Indirect Branch Predictor (IBP) and the Branch Target Buffer

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Meta’s ‘Pay or Consent’ Approach Faces E.U. Competition Rules Scrutiny

Meta’s ‘Pay or Consent’ Approach Faces E.U. Competition Rules Scrutiny

Meta’s decision to offer an ad-free subscription in the European Union (E.U.) has faced a new setback after regulators accused the social media behemoth of breaching the bloc’s competition rules by forcing users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them. The European Commission said the company’s “pay or consent” advertising model is

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Critical Flaws in CocoaPods Expose iOS and macOS Apps to Supply Chain Attacks

Critical Flaws in CocoaPods Expose iOS and macOS Apps to Supply Chain Attacks

A trio of security flaws has been uncovered in the CocoaPods dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects that could be exploited to stage software supply chain attacks, putting downstream customers at severe risks. The vulnerabilities allow “any malicious actor to claim ownership over thousands of unclaimed pods and insert malicious code into many of the

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End-to-End Secrets Security: Making a Plan to Secure Your Machine Identities

End-to-End Secrets Security: Making a Plan to Secure Your Machine Identities

At the heart of every application are secrets. Credentials that allow human-to-machine and machine-to-machine communication. Machine identities outnumber human identities by a factor of 45-to-1 and represent the majority of secrets we need to worry about. According to CyberArk’s recent research, 93% of organizations had two or more identity-related breaches in the past year. It is clear that

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