Intel and AMD chips have another serious security flaw to worry about

Chips from Intel and AMD, as well as processors from other manufacturers, may be susceptible to a new type of attack which could allow threat actors to steal cryptographic keys and other data directly from the endpoint's (opens in new tab) hardware.

A team of security researchers, including Riccardo Paccagnella of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, set out to investigate the idea of extracting cryptographic data from a chip by measuring the power consumed during data processing. It’s a relatively old theory that’s been proven inviable in practice, due to the inability to measure power consumption remotely.