Stick a fork in SGX, it’s done: Intel’s cloud-server security defeated by $30 chip and electrical shenanigans

Stick a fork in SGX, it’s done: Intel’s cloud-server security defeated by $30 chip and electrical shenanigans

VoltPillager breaks enclave confidentiality, calls anti-rogue data-center operator promise into question Boffins at the University of Birmingham in the UK have developed yet another way to compromise the confidentiality of Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) secure enclaves, supposed “safe rooms” for sensitive computation.…

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Hong Kong’s controversial national security law tip line gets 10,000 messages in first week of operation

Hong Kong’s controversial national security law tip line gets 10,000 messages in first week of operation

Hong Kong’s new multi-platform tip line for suspected violations of the Beijing-imposed national security law received more than 10,000 messages in its first week in existence.A police spokesman told the Post that the tally, as of 8am on Thursday, equated to about 1,400 pieces of information per day delivered to the force’s new national security…

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