Intel Says No New Mitigations Required for Indirector CPU Attack

A team of researchers from the University of California San Diego has published a paper detailing a novel attack method targeting Intel CPUs. The chip giant says no new mitigations are required to address it.  The new attack, named Indirector, is similar to the well-known Spectre v2 or Spectre Branch Target Injection (BTI) attack.  These methods typically allow…

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Sternum Announced Enhanced Security for the ChargePoint Home Flex.

Sternum, the pioneer in embedded IoT security and observability, today announced enhanced security for the ChargePoint Home Flex. In a comprehensive research project, Sternum identified a potential vulnerability involving the reverse SSH tunnel and deprecated NTP client and HTTP servers. ChargePoint, with its last firmware update, has disabled the HTTP server and updated the NTP…

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