Heads up guys, giant security flaw found in all recent Intel processors. Basically every Intel processor in the last four generations is affected. Ironically the 11 vulnerabilities, possibly backdoors, are in the Intel's "Trusted Execution Engine" that runs on a separate processor outside of the CPU/OS. Thankfully no one has yet found a way to hack you remotely, but given the ME manages a lot of features such as Wake on Lan and others, it's only a matter of time. Maybe time to consider an AMD Ryzen processor.
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Thanks to an investigation by third-party researchers into Intel's hidden firmware in certain chips, Intel decided to audit its firmware and on Monday confirmed it had found 11 severe bugs that affect millions of computers and servers.
The flaws affect Management Engine (ME), Trusted Execution Engine (TXE), and Server Platform Services (SPS).
Intel discovered the bugs after Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov from security firm Positive Technologies found a critical vulnerability in the ME firmware that Intel now says would allow an attacker with local access to execute arbitrary code.
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http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-w...ting-millions/