Intel Discloses New Management Engine Bugs

[Lucian Armasu]

Intel publicly disclosed two more Management Engine (ME) bugs that could allow attackers to gain remote access to victims' machines without prior authorization.

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[TCA_ChinChin]

Yet another Intel bug that is going to be forgotten in a week and deemed non-relevant. Its nice that Tom's is covering this though.

 

[hotaru251]

really need to shift priority to making new chips w/o these issues....nobody wants to buy anew CPU only to have important fixes slow its performance ;/

 

[jimmysmitty]

really need to shift priority to making new chips w/o these issues....nobody wants to buy anew CPU only to have important fixes slow its performance ;/

This wont affect the majority of consumers since the majority of consumers do not have a system capable of AMT. It requires the CPU, chipset and NIC card to have it in order for the features to actually work. SO if your board has a RealTek NIC its already not a viable feature.

That said, a properly secured network would make it hard for anyone to access the same subnet.

 

[redgarl]

Let's buy Intel, everything is fine... and Intel walk the line.