Symbiotic Security, which is announcing a $3 million seed round today, watches over developers as they code and points out potential security issues in real time. Other companies do this, but Symbiotic also emphasizes the next step: teaching developers to avoid these bugs in the first place. Ideally, this means developers will fix security bugs … Read more
Oct 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Artificial Intelligence Apple has publicly made available its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) Virtual Research Environment (VRE), allowing the research community to inspect and verify the privacy and security guarantees of its offering. PCC, which Apple unveiled earlier this June, has been marketed as the “most advanced security architecture ever … Read more
Aug 13, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / {Hardware} Safety A crew of researchers from the CISPA Helmholtz Middle for Data Safety in Germany has disclosed an architectural bug impacting Chinese language chip firm T-Head’s XuanTie C910 and C920 RISC-V CPUs that would permit attackers to realize unrestricted entry to prone gadgets. The vulnerability has been codenamed GhostWrite. … Read more
