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PCI SSC Publishes PCI PTS HSM v5.0

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published a major revision to the PCI PIN Transaction Security (PTS) Hardware Security Module (HSM) Modular Security Requirements from version 4.0 to version 5.0. This update represents a significant evolution in HSM security, addressing modern cryptographic practices, cloud and multi-tenant deployments, and emerging threats such as post-quantum…

NCSC launches SilentGlass, a plug-in device to secure HDMI and DisplayPort links

NCSC’s SilentGlass blocks malicious HDMI/DisplayPort links, protecting monitors from hardware attacks. Now commercialized for global use. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has launched SilentGlass, a new device to protect one of the most overlooked parts of modern IT systems: the physical links between screens and computers. It is a small plug-in security device…

CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads

Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (“cpuid[.]com”), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT. The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00 UTC, with

Apple, the storage company

When it comes to hardware and services revenues, storage is Apple’s secret spell. Not only has iCloud storage become Apple’s most frequently paid-for service, but people are more often purchasing additional storage when acquiring new Apple hardware. This is good business for the company and all it had to do to build that business was…

VIDEO: 11.5 Petabytes in 2U at 1,200 Watts: How New Zealand’s Novodisq Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules of Data Storage

A seed-stage startup from the bottom of the world has built custom solid-state hardware that delivers an order-of-magnitude improvement in power efficiency and density over conventional storage. With pilot customers lining up, Novodisq is positioning itself at the intersection of data sovereignty, AI infrastructure, and the global energy crunch.

Supporting Rowhammer research to protect the DRAM ecosystem

Posted by Daniel Moghimi Rowhammer is a complex class of vulnerabilities across the industry. It is a hardware vulnerability in DRAM where repeatedly accessing a row of memory can cause bit flips in adjacent rows, leading to data corruption. This can be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to data, escalate privileges, or cause…