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Intel Finally Patches Critical AMT Bug (Kinda)

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Intel finally patches the critical AMT bug discovered in March by security researcher Maksim Malyutin at Embedi, I say ‘kinda’ because it’s not really up to Intel to deploy the fix to the problem. They can’t really push out updates to CPUs, but at least they have fixed it in the firmware and now the […]

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Intel Hidden Management Engine – x86 Security Risk?

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So it seems the latest generation of Intel x86 CPUs have implemented a Intel hidden management engine that cannot be audited or examined. We can also assume at some point it will be compromised and security researchers are labelling this as a Ring -3 level vulnerability. This isn’t a new issue though, people have been […]

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