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Originally Posted by FlameOn
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.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-w...ting-millions/ |
Historically, if Intel is publicly fessing up to the flaw, they likely have a firmware update available within a week.
EDIT:
So after further reading it seems the flaw needs to be addressed by the Motherboard manufacturer, which is a bit of a pickle for form-built PCs (tablets, laptops, closed-system mITX etc.) which tend to not have continuous support.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us.../software.html
Intel has a tool that tells you if you are vulnerable, but like FlameOn posted, it appears this basically just identifies your chipset so you should already know if you're within the 5xxx-8xxx generations.
Kind of miffed that Acer, Dell, Lenovo and Panasonic are already on top of this, but nothing from MSI, ASUS or Gigabyte has made it's way out yet.