Intel Prioritizes Security in Latest vPro Chips
Intel is taking a new tack with the latest commercial PC chips announced last month: Instead of touting speed and performance, the company emphasized the chip’s security features. The chip giant has been working with security vendors in recent years to implement hardware-level protections on the chips to protect laptops from ransomware and malware attacks….
A history of ransomware: The motives and methods behind these evolving attacks
One day in December 1989, Eddy Willems got a floppy disk that changed his life. His boss gave it to him after finding the label intriguing: “AIDS Version 2.0,” a disease that was new and strange at that time. The company, based in Antwerp, Belgium, sold medical insurance among other things, and some AIDS statistics…
Researchers Demo Method For Turning A PC Into An Eavesdropping Device
Researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have devised a way to turn any computer into an eavesdropping device by surreptitiously getting connected headphones or earphones to function like microphones. In a paper titled “SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit,” the researchers this week described malware they have developed for reconfiguring…