Collaborate Disseminate
Intel ME, AMT, SMT, V-Pro… All of these acronyms are kind of intimidating, all we know about them is that they are tied to remote control technologies rooted deep in …read more Continue reading Enabling Intel AMT For BIOS-over-WiFi
Despite some companies making strides with ARM, for the most part, the desktop and laptop space is still dominated by x86 machines. For all their advantages, they have a glaring …read more Continue reading Disabling Intel’s Backdoors On Modern Laptops
A new angle on an old Intel bug is making heads spin this week: The researchers who found it say it’s unpatchable.
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It’s only September and yet 2018 is well on its way to being remembered as the year of fixing flaws we didn’t realise were possible in hardware we’d never heard of. Continue reading Intel releases firmware update for ME flaw
It’s 5 pm, the sun is slowly setting on the Leipzig conference center, and although we’re only halfway through the first day, there’s a ton that you should see. We’ll report some more on the culture of the con later — for now here’s just the hacks.
Electric autos are the future, right? Well, for now we need to figure out how to charge them. All across Germany, charging stations are popping up like dandelions. How do they work? Are they secure? [Mathias Dalheimer] bought a couple loading stations, built himself a car …read more
Over the last decade, Intel has been including a tiny little microcontroller inside their CPUs. This microcontroller is connected to everything, and can shuttle data between your hard drive and your network adapter. It’s always on, even when the rest of your computer is off, and with the right software, you can wake it up over a network connection. Parts of this spy chip were included in the silicon at the behest of the NSA. In short, if you were designing a piece of hardware to spy on everyone using an Intel-branded computer, you would come up with something like …read more
Continue reading What You Need To Know About The Intel Management Engine
Some computer manufacturers have started releasing patches for eight serious vulnerabilities in Intel processors or they have outlined firmware update plans for vulnerable models. Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Lenovo, Panasonic… Continue reading Dangerous Intel Chip Flaw Patches Becoming Available
What is the world’s most widely-used operating system on new PCs? Windows? Guess again. Continue reading Worries over Intel’s Mangement Engine grow after new flaws found
What is the world’s most widely-used operating system on new PCs? Windows? Guess again. Continue reading Worries over Intel’s Mangement Engine grow after new flaws found
Intel has released firmware updates for many of its processors to fix eight high-risk flaws that can put systems at risk of complete compromise. The flaws are located in low-level technologies found in the Intel Management Engine (ME), the Intel Truste… Continue reading Intel Warns of Serious Processor Flaws
