New ‘CacheOut’ attack targets Intel processors, with a fix arriving soon
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Jan-27-2020
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Researchers have discovered and published information on what they’re calling CacheOut, a vulnerability in most Intel CPUs that allows an attacker to target more specific data, even stored within Intel’s secured SGX enclave.Intel assigned what’s known as the CVE-2020-0549 vulnerability a […]
Read MoreReport: Avast and AVG collect and sell your personal info via their free antivirus programs
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Jan-27-2020
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Avast and its subsidiary AVG, caught selling customer data to corporate clients last year, are at it again—this time using its free antivirus programs if you opt in to data collection, a new report said Monday. The joint report by Vice’s […]
Read MoreZoneAlarm Extreme Security review: Good protection in need of an overhaul
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Jan-17-2020
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The more things change, the more they stay the same, the saying goes. That couldn’t be more true for our review candidate today, Check Point’s ZoneAlarm Extreme Security. We reviewed this software nearly six years ago, and in that time […]
Read MoreHow to use your iPhone as an encrypted Google security key
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Jan-16-2020
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