InfoSec News Nuggets 10/17/2024

New CounterSEVeillance and TDXDown Attacks Target AMD and Intel TEEs Security researchers continue to find ways to attack Intel and AMD processors, and the chip giants over the past week have issued responses to separate research targeting their products. The research projects were aimed at Intel and AMD trusted execution environments (TEEs), which are designed to protect code and data by isolating the protected application or virtual machine (VM) from the operating system and other…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 07/11/2023

New Mozilla Feature Blocks Risky Add-Ons on Specific Websites to Safeguard User Security Mozilla has announced that some add-ons may be blocked from running on certain sites as part of a new feature called Quarantined Domains. "We have introduced a new back-end feature to only allow some extensions monitored by Mozilla to run on specific websites for various reasons, including security concerns," the company said in its Release Notes for Firefox 115.0 released last week.…
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