Microsoft banks on new silicon chips built by Intel, others to fend off firmware attacks
Microsoft is pushing an initiative meant to protect its computers’ most sensitive data amid recent revelations that nation-state hackers are beginning to exploit the fragmented nature of the company’s supply chain. The company on Monday started pushing Secured-core PCs, its term for machines that will come with Windows 10, Microsoft’s latest PC operating system; Windows Hello, which allows users to log in without a password; and, most importantly, silicon microchips built by Intel Corp., Qualcomm and AMD that are meant to more closely guard sensitive data. By ensuring that PCs are loading legitimate Windows operating systems when a devices activate, the plan goes, Microsoft will ensure that users aren’t actually loading a malicious OS inserted by an outsider. The effort goes public more than a year after security researchers at ESET caught APT28 — a group of suspected Russian hackers also known as Fancy Bear — testing out malware that launched malicious code on a computer when […]
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