InfoSec News Nuggets 11/13/2023
Downfall fallout: Intel knew AVX chips were insecure and did nothing, lawsuit claims Intel has been sued by a handful of PC buyers who claim the x86 goliath failed to act when informed five years ago about faulty chip instructions that allowed the recent Downfall vulnerability, and during that period sold billions of insecure chips. The lawsuit [PDF], filed on behalf of five plaintiffs in a US federal court in San Jose, California, claims Intel knew about…