Bugs (Software and Hardware)

On May 21, 2018, new variants of the side-channel central processing unit (CPU) hardware vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown were publicly disclosed. These variants—known as 3A and 4—can allow an attacker to obtain access to sensitive information on affected systems. Systems Affected CPU hardware implementations Description Common CPU hardware …

The Inception attackers have been active since at least 2014 and have been documented previously by both Blue Coat and Symantec; historical attacks used custom malware for a variety of platforms, and targeting a range of industries, primarily in Russia, but also around the world. This blog describes attacks against …

Neil Armstrong, the great space explorer, once said “research is all about creating new knowledge.” And of course, with knowledge we are in a better position to predict, and thus prepare, for what is yet to come. For this reason, the work Check Point Research does is invaluable when it …

Symantec ProxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) which was previously listed as Blue Coat Systems, acquired by Symantec in 2016. Symantec ProxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) are high performance on-premises appliances that protect organizations across the web, social media, applications and mobile networks. Combine with cloud-delivered Web Security Service …

During the first week of January 2018, the world has been plunged into hot and anxious discussions concerning two newly discovered vulnerabilities in nearly all major ARM-based CPUs including smartphones, tablets, and some computers. The vulnerability itself even extends to the IBM’s POWER processors which run nearly all supercomputers! Starting …