 Today Intel announced two new additions to the 8th Gen Intel® Core™ processor family: The U-series (formerly code-named Whiskey Lake) and Y-series (formerly code-named Amber Lake) are optimized for connectivity in thin, light laptops and 2 in 1s for the first time, while also providing ultimate mobile performance and long battery life. Intel says the new 8th Gen Intel Core U-series and Y-series processors raise the bar for connectivity, performance, entertainment, and productivity for today’s laptops and 2 in 1s. The 8th Gen Intel Core U-series processors bring integrated Gigabit Wi-Fi to thin and light mainstream laptops for the first time, delivering up to 12-times1 faster connectivity speeds. They also offer up to 2-times better performance, compared with a 5-year-old PC, and double-digit gains in office productivity for everyday web browsing and light content creation over the previous generation. “The new 8th Gen Intel Core processors extend once again our leadership in delivering exceptional performance. Now with Gigabit Wi-Fi, we’ve enabled faster PC connectivity, added more intuitive voice experiences and enabled longer battery life needed for the next wave of mobile computing,” said Chris Walker, vice president of the Client Computing Group and general manager of Intel Mobile Client Platform. 8th Gen Intel Core Y-series processors also deliver fast connectivity options, including fast Wi-Fi and LTE capabilities with unprecedented performance, to the some of the thinnest and lightest laptops and 2 in 1s in the market with double-digit gains in performance compared with the previous generation6, enabling fresh innovations in sleek and compact form factor designs with extended battery life. Both the U-series and Y-series processors have new and improved platform capabilities for more intelligent interactions with PCs, such as support for multiple voice services on the U-series and refinements to improve natural input options like touch and stylus for the Y-series. Full details posted on OUR FORUM.  According to reports, a security researcher has discovered an unpatched vulnerability in the Windows 10 operating system. The security researcher reportedly revealed the vulnerability on Twitter. It’s a zero-day flaw that exists in Windows 10 and it could allow an attacker to gain system privileges on an affected computer, according to CERT/CC vulnerability analyst Phil Dormann. The vulnerability was disclosed in a tweet by @SandboxEscaper and the account has been removed. It appears that vulnerability exists in task scheduler on Windows 10 but there’s no easy way to exploit the security flaw. The successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires the user to download a malicious app on a machine. “Microsoft Windows task scheduler contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC) interface, which can allow a local user to obtain SYSTEM privileges,” the advisory reads. “Microsoft Windows task scheduler contains a vulnerability in the handling of ALPC, which can allow a local user to gain SYSTEM privileges. A local user may be able to gain elevated (SYSTEM) privileges.” “A local user may be able to gain elevated (SYSTEM) privileges,” the advisory explains. Another report claims that the patch for the said vulnerability may land soon. There’s a chance that Microsoft will deploy updates to address this vulnerability on next Patch Tuesday, which takes place on September 11. For more stop by OUR FORUM.  Current versions of Ubuntu and CentOS are disabling a security feature that was added to the GNOME desktop environment last year. The feature's name is Bubblewrap, which is a sandbox environment that the GNOME Project added to secure GNOME's thumbnail parsers in July 2017, with the release of GNOME 3.26. Thumbnail parsers are scripts that read files inside a directory and create thumbnail images to be used with GNOME, KDE, or other Linux desktop environments. This operation takes place every time a user navigates to folders, and the OS needs to display thumbnails for the files contained within. In recent years, security researchers have proven that thumbnail parses can be an attack vector when hackers trick a user into downloading a boobytrapped file on their desktop, which is then executed by the thumbnail parser. It's for this reason that the GNOME team added Bubblewrap sandboxes for all GNOME thumbnail parser scripts last year. But according to German security researcher and journalist Hanno Boeck, the Ubuntu operating system is disabling Bubblewrap support inside GNOME for all recent OS versions. Furthermore, Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy also discovered that GNOME Bubblewrap sandboxes were also missing in the default version of CentOS 7.x. But there's a valid explanation for what Ubuntu is doing, according to Alex Murray, Ubuntu Security Tech Lead at Canonical. Murray says the Ubuntu team opted to disable GNOME's Bubblewrap because they did not have the time and resources to audit the feature. Learn more by visiting OUR FORUM. |
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