As Ars reported last week, AMD stripped the protection, known as TSME, from consumer Ryzen processors. Short for Transparent ...

AMD says it will reinstate firmware memory encryption (TSME) on non-PRO Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs through a BIOS update in July ...

Without announcement, AMD has disabled the security feature TSME on certain Ryzen processors. Customers protested, AMD reacts ...

Final board-vendor BIOS releases are still pending.

UPDATE 06/22: In a statement to PCMag, AMD acknowledges that a BIOS option to enable Memory Guard on certain non-PRO Ryzen 9000-series desktop processors "was previously available but was removed in a ...

The last decade-plus has seen a wealth of advancements designed to secure data at the microprocessor level, but a team of academic researchers recently punched through those defenses with a tiny ...

A decade ago, AMD added a protection to its high-end CPUs to protect them against cold boot attacks and other types of ...

AMD appears to have yanked a memory encryption protection from consumer Ryzen chips, leaving users to play firmware detective. For those who came in late: a decade ago, AMD added Transparent Secure ...

VMware announced support for AMD secure encrypted virtualization-encrypted state (SEV-ES) in the latest update to its vSphere virtualization platform. SEV-ES provides hardware layer encryption of ...

Shortly after getting negative press for refusing to pay a $10,000 bug bounty for a significant vulnerability, AMD is back in the news for all the wrong reasons. The company seems to have dropped a ...

TL;DR: Two independent teams of university researchers have unveiled separate methods for bypassing the protections that Intel and AMD promote as critical defenses for securing cloud workloads.