Blog Category: Provisioning & Key Management

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Provisioning & Key Management

India Tech Pursues RISC-V ISA

EE Times India reports that the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) has made significant progress in that country. It says that researchers at Indian Institute of

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CPU Vulnerability
Provisioning & Key Management

A Foreshadowing of Another Exploit: The Appearance of the Foreshadow Attack

Dubbed “Foreshadow,” this speculative execution attack allows an attacker to steal sensitive information stored inside personal computers or third-party clouds. There are two versions: the original attack designed to extract data from  Software Guard Extensions (SGX) enclaves and a next-generation version that affects virtual machines (VM), hypervisors, operating system kernel memory, and System Management Mode (SMM) memory. SGX is a new feature in modern CPUs which allows computers to protect users’ data, even if the entire system falls under the attacker’s control.

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