Huawei, Haier, China Mobile unveil 5G solutions for smart manufacturing

  Haier, China’s largest consumer electronics and home appliance producer, collaborated with Huawei and China mobile to apply innovative manufacturing solutions combining 5G and mobile edge computing in its smart factories. Developed at a joint-innovation base established in February, the solutions integrate 5G edge computing with artificial intelligence and machine vision in manufacturing environments. In…

New Blacksmith Exploit Bypasses Current Rowhammer Attack Defenses

Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated yet another variation of the Rowhammer attack affecting all DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) chips that bypasses currently deployed mitigations, thereby effectively compromising the security of the devices. The new technique — dubbed “Blacksmith” (CVE-2021-42114, CVSS score: 9.0) — is designed to trigger bit flips on target refresh rate-enabled DRAM chips with…