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‘Resident Evil Village’ to arrive for Apple Silicon-based Macs on Friday, October 28

If you have an Apple Silicon-based Mac, you’re going to like what’s released this Friday. “Resident Evil Village,” the groundbreaking survival horror game, is en route to Apple Silicon Macs on Friday, October 28th. Developed and published by Capcom in 2021, the game is the sequel to “Resident Evil 7: Biohazard,” which was released in […]

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Researchers discover security flaw on some Intel processors that allows firmware to bypass security

This is why firmware updates exist. A flaw has been discovered within certain Intel chips that allow an attacker with physical access to the computer, known as an “evil maid attack,” install malicious firmware onto the chip. The flaw was noted by Mark Ermolov, Dmitry Sklyarov (both from Positive Technologies) and Maxim Goryachy (an independent […]

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Apple patent proposes mapping a user’s veins to overcome “evil twin” hurdle

This could be interesting. A recently published Apple patent entitled “Vein matching for difficult biometric authentication cases” shows that Apple may be looking to improve its Face ID and other visual-based biometric systems by taking advantage of the unique and hard to copy patterns of veins that reside under the skin. If successful, this could resolve […]