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AMD’s trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack

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71% Informative

An international team of researchers unveiled BadRAM , a proof-of-concept attack that undermines security assurances AMD makes to users of one of its most expensive microprocessor product lines.

Chipmakers have begun baking protections into their silicon to provide assurances that even if a server has been physically tampered with or infected with malware, sensitive data can’t be accessed without an encryption key that’s known only to the VM administrator.

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42

Article tone

informal

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English

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71

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Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

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detected

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medium-lived

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