Posts Tagged ‘hardware-security’
Top 5 Cybersecurity News
This week’s Top 5 Cybersecurity News for October 16, 2026 has one thing in common: each story turns on a check that looked like proof of safety. A VPN appliance was fully patched and the vendor’s integrity tool found nothing, yet an attacker held root. French supermarkets ran refrigeration controllers that sit outside most IT…
Read MoreSpectre v2 Branch Target Reuse vulnerability
Researchers disclosed a new Spectre v2 Branch Target Reuse vulnerability on September 29 that lets an attacker recover a Linux system’s root password hash in minutes, on a fully patched Intel machine, by abusing a gap between how CPUs and just-in-time compilers handle recycled memory. The flaw touches Intel, AMD and Arm processors alike, and…
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