Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2018
The popular Linus Torvalds harshly criticizes the Spectre patches issued by Intel to patch the Spectre variant 2 flaw affecting its processor chips. Security experts harshly criticize the patch issued by Intel to patch the Spectre variant 2 flaw affecting its processor chips. Intel has decided to do not disable the prediction feature in future chips until the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2018
Intel has published the results of the test conducted on the Meltdown and Spectre patches and their impact on performance confirming serious problems. According to the tech giant systems with several types of processors running Meltdown and Spectre patches may experience more frequent reboots. A few days ago Intel reported that extensive test conducted on home and business PCs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2018
Analysis conducted by SolarWinds on the impact on the performance of the Spectre/Meltdown patches on its own Amazon Web Services infrastructure revealed serious performance degradation. SolarWinds, the vendor of IT Management Software & Monitoring Tools, has analyzed the impact on the performance of Meltdown and Spectre security patches on its own Amazon Web Services infrastructure. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 12, 2018
Security researchers from F-Secure have discovered a new issue in Intel’s Advanced Management Technology (AMT) implementation that can be exploited by remote attackers to access most of the corporate laptops. Intel is the middle of a tempest, after the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre attacks, security researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in Intel’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2018
Intel Makes a Mistake in The CPU Design, Windows and Linux Scramble to Fix It. It is suspected that the flaw is in the way an Intel CPU manages memory between “kernel mode” and “user mode.” Competition between IT hardware manufacturers is fierce. Decimal point differences in performance specs translate into millions of dollars won […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2017
Almost any PC vendor announced the imminent release of fixes for the flaws in Intel Management Engine, but many of them will be available only in 2018. Intel has started to issue security updated to fix multiple flaws in Intel’s CPUs, unfortunately many of them will not be available to the end-users until 2018. The tech giant […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2017
Intel’s management engine – in most Positive Technologies plans to demonstrate at the next Black Hat conference how to hack over USB into Intel Management Engine of most CPUs since 2008. Experts from Positive Technologies that in September announced to have devised a technique a to attack the Intel Management Engine, now provided more details about […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2017
Security researchers at Positive Technologies have discovered an undocumented configuration setting that disables the Intel Management Engine. Security researchers at Positive Technologies have discovered an undocumented configuration setting that disables the CPU control mechanism Intel Management Engine 11. The Intel Management Engine consists of a microcontroller that works with the Platform Controller Hub chip, in conjunction […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2017
A critical remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-5689 in Intel Management Engine affects Intel enterprise PCs dates back 9 years. A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-5689Â has been discovered in the remote management features implemented on computers shipped with Intel Chipset in past 9 years. The vulnerability affects the Intel Management […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2017
After CIA leak, Intel Security releases CHIPSEC, a detection tool for EFI rootkits that detect rogue binaries inside the computer firmware. A few days ago, WikiLeaks announced it is working with software makers to fix the zero-day flaws in Vault7 dump that impacted their products and services. The organization is sharing information on the hacking tools […]
