Category: Security

• IPAS: Security Advisories for June 2021 Hi everyone, Today we released 29 security advisories addressing 73 vulnerabilities. 40 of those, or 55%, were found internally through our own proactive security research. Of the remaining 33 CVEs being addressed, 29, or 40%, were reported through our bug bounty program. Overall, 95% of the issues being addressed today are the result of our ongoing investments in security assurance,...
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• Intel Announces the Winners of the Inaugural Hardware Security Academic Award at IEEE S&P 2021 As part of Intel’s ongoing commitment to security, we collaborate closely with and support academic research into the prevention, detection, and mitigation of potential security threats. We do so through programs such as the Intel Bug Bounty Program, our vulnerability disclosure program, and Intel Labs academic and faculty research grants and partnerships. On March 10, 2021, we announced the newest...
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• IPAS: Bug Bounty Bonus: Pentium®, Intel Atom®, and Celeron® Processors Hi everyone, Today we are announcing a new Bug Bounty “Bonus” focused on Pentium®, Intel Atom®, and Celeron® Processors. The intent of this new bonus program is to incentivize deeper research into microcode for the products listed on the Bug Bounty Bonus page. For these products, external parties have recently published microcode and a microcode disassembler to GitHub and we...
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• Corporate Responsibility Plays a Significant Part in Compute Lifecycle Assurance (CLA) Intel is committed to Corporate Responsibility. While we strive to ‘do the right thing’ for our customers, partners, environment, employees, and the community, corporate responsibility is more than that. It is a management approach that looks at and proactively manages diversity, inclusion, supply chain responsibility, environmental compliance and more. There is a societal value and a business value to corporate...
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• IPAS: Security Advisories for October 2020 10/15/2020 Update: while many Linux distributions have updated or are in the process of updating, a version of the Linux kernel with these mitigations is not yet available. In the meantime, we continue to recommend specific Kernel fixes, listed in INTEL-SA-00435, to mitigate these issues or check with your Linux operating system provider for updates. Hi everyone, For October 2020,...
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• IPAS: Security Advisories for September 2020 Hi everyone, Today we are releasing four security advisories addressing 9 vulnerabilities that were all internally found by Intel except for INTEL-SA-00405 which was reported through our bug bounty program. We believe that transparency around the issues we find internally helps our customers to more accurately make risk assessments and we continue to invest heavily in internal research as well...
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• IPAS: Security Advisories for July 2020 Hi everyone, For July, we are not releasing any new security advisories. The next scheduled release will be August 11, 2020. I would like to point you to a new resource for understanding which processors are affected by the various Transient Execution vulnerabilities: https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/processors-affected-transient-execution-attack-mitigation-product-cpu-model Cheers, Jerry Bryant Director of Communications Intel Product Assurance and Security
• IPAS: Security Advisories for June 2020 Hi everyone, It’s the second Tuesday in June, and today we are releasing 5 new security advisories along with new whitepapers taking a deeper look into some of the issues being addressed. Advisories in the table below have been part of the Intel Platform Update (IPU) process through which we work with ecosystem partners to validate and integrate updates prior...
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• IPAS: Security Advisories for May 2020 Hi everyone, It’s the second Tuesday in May 2020 and today we are not releasing any new security advisories. The next regular update will be June 9, 2020. You can find our security advisories at https://www.intel.com/security. For software guidance, insights, and technical deep dives into vulnerabilities and mitigations, head over to https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/. Regards, Jerry Bryant Director of Communications Intel Product...
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• Intel after McAfee: Hardware-enabled security to address increasing cyber threats We’ve all read the recent headlines and seen the alarming statistics. According to Cybersecurity Ventures cybercrime damages will cost the world more than $6 trillion by 2021. Cyber identity theft is also on the rise: The biggest online data breach in history came to light last year, involving more than 1 billion user accounts. Most of us have also experienced...
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