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Broken ARM: Mali Malware Pwns Phones

| | android, ARM, CVE-2023-33200, CVE-2023-34970, CVE-2023-4211, GPU, hardware supply chain, Linux, Mali, open source software supply chain, SB Blogwatch, software supply chain, software supply chain risk, Software Supply Chain risks, software supply chain security, Software Supply Chain Security Risks
Exploited in the wild: Yet more use-after-free vulns in Arm’s Mali GPU driver ...
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Apple M1 Flaw Can’t be Fixed — PACMAN Panic

Apple M1 Flaw Can’t be Fixed — PACMAN Panic

| | Apple, ARM, M1, PACMAN, SB Blogwatch, speculative execution, Yo dawg we heard you had a vulnerability mitigator so we designed a vulnerability to mitigate your vulnerability mitigator
Apple’s M1 chip isn’t as safe from buffer overflows as previously thought. M1 and other designs based on ARMv8.3 can have their ‘PAC’ protection neutered ...
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Wait, What? Nvidia/ARM Sale on Hold—for Security Reasons

Wait, What? Nvidia/ARM Sale on Hold—for Security Reasons

| | ARM, national security policy, Nvidia, SB Blogwatch, Softbank, uk
The government of the United Kingdom is investigating the proposed “merger” of ARM and Nvidia, on national security grounds ...
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Professionally Evil Fundamentals: Introduction

A Hacker’s Tour of the X86 CPU Architecture

| | analysis, Apple, architecture, ARM, cpu, eflags, Endian, M1, payload, Penetration Testing, Professionally Evil, Registers, Reverse Engineering, Reviews, Secure Ideas, segments, shellcode, x86
Overview The Intel x86 CPU architecture is one of the most prolific CPU architectures for desktops, laptops, and servers.  While other architectures exist and are even taking some market share with mobile ...
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Professionally Evil Fundamentals: Introduction

Solving the November 13th Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge

| | .gdb, ARM, ASM, challenge, debug, debugging, Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge, Linux, payload, Penetration Testing, Professionally Evil, programming, Pwntools, Reverse Engineering, Write-up
Overview Each week on Friday, we post a social media challenge known as “Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge”.  On November 13th of 2020, we released a challenge that contained a payload and it ...
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Professionally Evil Fundamentals: Introduction

Solving the November 13th Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge

| | .gdb, ARM, ASM, challenge, debug, debugging, Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge, Linux, payload, Penetration Testing, Professionally Evil, programming, Pwntools, Reverse Engineering, Write-up
Overview Each week on Friday, we post a social media challenge known as “Detective Nevil Mystery Challenge”.  On November 13th of 2020, we released a challenge that contained a payload and it ...
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IoT Security

Arm Bolsters IoT Security Testing

| | ARM, Internet of things, iot, IoT hardware, IoT Security
Arm, in collaboration with a variety of testing partners, has announced a series of certifications intended to make sure internet of things (IoT) platforms built using its processors are secure. In 2017 ...
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