Latest ARM news

New ARM 'TIKTAG' attack impacts Google Chrome, Linux systems

A new speculative execution attack named "TIKTAG" targets ARM's Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) to leak data with over a 95% chance of success, allowing hackers to bypass the security feature.
- Bill Toulas
- June 16, 2024
- 10:16 AM
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Arm warns of actively exploited flaw in Mali GPU kernel drivers

Arm has issued a security bulletin warning of a memory-related vulnerability in Bifrost and Valhall GPU kernel drivers that is being exploited in the wild.
- Bill Toulas
- June 10, 2024
- 06:53 PM
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New SLAM attack steals sensitive data from AMD, future Intel CPUs

Academic researchers developed a new side-channel attack called SLAM that exploits hardware features designed to improve security in upcoming CPUs from Intel, AMD, and Arm to obtain the root password hash from the kernel memory.
- Bill Toulas
- December 06, 2023
- 07:52 PM
- 0
New iLeakage attack steals emails, passwords from Apple Safari

Academic researchers created a new speculative side-channel attack they named iLeakage that works on all recent Apple devices and can extract sensitive information from the Safari web browser.
- Bill Toulas
- October 26, 2023
- 07:26 AM
- 2
Arm warns of Mali GPU flaws likely exploited in targeted attacks

Arm in a security advisory today is warning of an actively exploited vulnerability affecting the widely-used Mali GPU drivers.
- Bill Toulas
- October 02, 2023
- 12:37 PM
- 0
New Collide+Power side-channel attack impacts almost all CPUs

A new software-based power side-channel attack called 'Collide+Power' was discovered, impacting almost all CPUs and potentially allowing data to leak. However, the researchers warn that the flaw is low-risk and will likely not be used in attacks on end users.
- Bill Toulas
- August 02, 2023
- 01:37 PM
- 1
Android security update fixes Mali GPU bug exploited as zero-day

Google has released the monthly security update for the Android platform, adding fixes for 56 vulnerabilities, five of them with a critical severity rating and one exploited since at least last December.
- Bill Toulas
- June 06, 2023
- 09:19 AM
- 0
Microsoft shares fix for cameras not working on Surface laptops

Microsoft has shared a temporary fix for a widespread issue triggered by a buggy driver that causes built-in cameras on some ARM-based Windows devices (including Surface Pro X laptops) to stop working.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 30, 2023
- 12:49 PM
- 0
CISA orders agencies to patch Backup Exec bugs used by ransomware gang

On Friday, U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) increased by five its list of security issues that threat actors have used in attacks, three of them in Veritas Backup Exec exploited to deploy ransomware.
- Ionut Ilascu
- April 07, 2023
- 05:07 PM
- 0
Windows emergency update fixes Microsoft 365 issues on Arm devices

Microsoft has released an out-of-band (OOB) Windows update to address a known issue that would cause Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365 sign-in issues on Arm devices after installing the June 2022 Patch Tuesday updates.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 20, 2022
- 05:30 PM
- 2
Intel, AMD, Arm warn of new speculative execution CPU bugs

Security researchers have found new a new way to bypass existing hardware-based defenses for speculative execution in modern computer processors from Intel, AMD, and ARM.
- Bill Toulas
- March 09, 2022
- 12:03 PM
- 3
Kali Linux 2022.1 released with 6 new tools, SSH wide compat, and more

Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2022.1, the first version of 2022, with improved accessibility features, a visual refresh, SSH wide compatibility, and of course, new toys to play with!
- Lawrence Abrams
- February 14, 2022
- 07:41 PM
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now supports Windows 10 Arm devices

Microsoft today announced that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, the enterprise version of its Defender antivirus, now comes with support for Windows 10 on Arm devices.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 05, 2021
- 03:41 PM
- 0
Microsoft adds 64-bit application support to Windows 10 on ARM

Microsoft has announced the long-awaited ability to run emulated 64-bit applications in Windows on ARM. This new feature will allow applications to use more memory and thus gain better performance than their 32-bit counterparts.
- Lawrence Abrams
- December 11, 2020
- 06:37 AM
- 0
Windows 10 ARM runs faster on M1 Macs than on a Surface Pro X

Since Apple unveiled its M1 chip, users have been in awe of its performance power efficiency. It turns out that the M1 chip not only performs fantastic for macOS BigSur but it may also be a better choice for Windows 10 than Microsoft's own devices.
- Lawrence Abrams
- November 30, 2020
- 06:06 PM
- 5
Kali Linux 2020.3 begins journey of replacing Bash with ZSH

Kali Linux 2020.3 was released today by Offensive Security, and it begins the first steps of switching from Bash as the default shell to ZSH.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 18, 2020
- 02:32 PM
- 0
Samsung is reportedly building an Exynos CPU for Windows 10 PCs

If the latest from the rumor mill turns out to be correct, Samsung could launch a new Exynos processor to power Windows 10 on ARM.
- Mayank Parmar
- July 26, 2020
- 11:28 AM
- 0
Microsoft releases Windows 10 Hyper-V VHDX for ARM64 devices

For Windows 10 users running Insider builds on ARM64 devices, Microsoft has released a Hyper-V VXHD that lets you install Windows 10 as a guest on your devices.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 21, 2020
- 03:33 PM
- 0
SWAPGS Vulnerability in Modern CPUs Fixed in Windows, Linux, ChromeOS

Both Microsoft and Redhat have released advisories about a new variant of the Spectre 1 speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities that could allow a malicious program to access and read the contents of privileged memory in an operating system.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 06, 2019
- 02:15 PM
- 2
Windows 10 May Soon Run on the Nintendo Switch

Using a custom UEFI firmware, a Windows driver and UEFI developer is getting closer to installing Windows 10 on a Nintendo Switch.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 04, 2019
- 06:33 PM
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