Security Highlight

Hertzbleed is a new side-channel attack that turns a power side channel into a timing side channel. That timing side channel may be exploitable even if the algorithm runs in a constant number of ...

Recently, Apple introduced a useful but potentially dangerous feature to its iPhones. Most of us would assume that a phone becomes inactive when switched off by the user or, due to low power. ...

Experienced hackers know that successful exploits usually require a series of vulnerabilities, the stepping stones. The combination of these vulnerabilities enables the attack path, and all of ...

The global chip shortage is leading to a variety of issues in electronics supply chains, from lead times of over two years to ten-fold price increases. Riscure has seen examples of such ...

Do you remember the Rowhammer attack? This surprising attack published in 2015 exploited cross-talk between DRAM memory cells. In this type of memory, data is stored in tiny capacitors that are ...

On November 8, failOverflow reported finding the PS5 root keys for symmetric encryption. At first glance, this find may seem harmless as it will not directly provide code execution privileges. ...

Researchers from universities in Singapore, China, and Switzerland have discovered a novel way to compromise the security of SGX, the Trusted Execution Environment provided by Intel. The attack ...

This month we celebrate 20 years of Riscure, and, as it happens, device security evaluation and certification emerged during that period. Whereas regulation is still limited to the most ...

Electronic devices have a limited lifetime. Not so much because the electronics wear out, but because the technology ages. A typical example is a smartphone. People replace them because they ...