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Another day, another security fix released by Intel. In a blog post, Positive Technologies has detailed four different vulnerabilities found in the Intel Management Engine. The fixes for these flaws were pushed in the early July. It’s worth noting that the flaws found are similar to the ones reported by the security firm last year. Those […]
These ME security holes affect millions of computers. ME continues Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT). This is a great tool that allows admins to remotely run machines, even when the device is not booted. Let me repeat that: If your PC has power, even if it’s not going, it can be attacked. If an attacker happily […]
Even the creator of MINIX operating system didn’t know that his for-education operating system is on almost every Intel-powered computer. He is okay with Intel using his creation but said in an open letter that he would have preferred if the company would have told him, just as a courtesy. The OS was living on the Intel Management […]
Intel’s management engine – in most Positive Technologies plans to demonstrate at the next Black Hat conference how to hack over USB into Intel Management Engine of most CPUs since 2008. Experts from Positive Technologies that in September announced to have devised a technique a toattack the Intel Management Engine, now provided more details about it […]
Short Bytes: A security researcher has outlined a dangerous loophole that affects the Intel CPUs that have Intel Management Engine and vPro enabled. While there’s no known exploit at the moment that uses this flaw, it can act as a powerful rootkit mechanism. Security researcher Damien Zammit has found a possible loophole in Intel’s recent x86 processors […]