Computers’ amazing abilities to entertain people, help them work, and even respond to voice commands are, at their heart, the results of decades of technological development and innovation in ...

The dust has yet to settle on the recent revelation of critical vulnerabilities in microprocessors in most modern computers worldwide, but it's already troublingly clear that fixing the problem isn't ...

At the upcoming HackInTheBox conference in Malaysia, security researcher Kris Kaspersky will demonstrate how bugs in microprocessors can be exploited to take control of local machines and servers.

The MITRE-led Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) program added four new microprocessor-related weaknesses to its community-developed list of common software and hardware weaknesses that result in ...

A noted Israeli cryptographer whose recent research note on the security implications of microprocessor bugs has generated widespread attention now says his paper was not meant to cause alarm but to ...

Global microchip giant Intel has agreed to buy the security technology firm McAfee for £5billion. Under the terms of the deal, Intel will pay £31 per share for McAfee, nearly 60 per cent more than its ...

At a time when cyber attacks to steal key data are proving to be a real nightmare for nations and companies, global software and cloud major Oracle has launched the world’s first silicon-based ...

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering of IIT-Madras recently announced that it had developed a microprocessor christened ‘Moushik’. It uses a 180-nanometer semiconductor chip and can be ...

The chip industry faces a pivotal moment as hardware-side exploits cannot simply be fixed with software updates. Current chip engineering standards may need to be overhauled Computers’ amazing ...

Mark Hempstead owns shares in Intel Corp in a retirement account. He has received federal and industry funds for his research in power-management and computer architecture. Computers’ amazing ...