News Intel NUCs Hit With Five New Security Flaws

[Admin]

Security researchers have found five new security flaws in the Intel NUC firmware, after multiple other NUC vulnerability disclosures were made earlier this year.

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[Darkbreeze]

And the hit's just keep on coming. Dang, it's been a really bad two years for Intel. If it weren't for the fact that they kept their boot on the neck of AMD and the cruise control set to 55mph when AMD was in bad shape, I'd almost feel sorry for them. Almost.

 

[w_barath]

55mph? That would imply that they were keeping up with the average flow of traffic. While AMD was down, Intel's generation-on-generation improvements dropped to 10% of that they had been while they faced real competition. I think saying they shifted to neutral and coasted would be charitable!

 

[InvalidError]

Dang, it's been a really bad two years for Intel.

Don't rush to clear AMD just because Intel got a rougher time with side-channel exploits so far, researchers have had five more years to poke at Intel's current architectures than they do with Ryzen. More popular OSes, browsers, etc. get more scrutiny simply because there is that much of a broader install base to potentially cash in on successful exploits with. AMD's market share is only ~20%, interest in AMD-specific exploits is going to grow with AMD's success and AMD may get its share of vendor-specific exploits then. I'd be surprised if nothing Zen-specific pops up within the next three years.

 

[setx]

Again this nonsense that Intel has many exploits because everyone only interested in finding their exploits...
How about ARM? They dominate mobile and embedded markets and still no one is interested in finding their exploits? Sure!

 

[InvalidError]

How about ARM? They dominate mobile and embedded markets and still no one is interested in finding their exploits? Sure!

ARM cores are still FAR simpler than x86 ones due to power efficiency constraints preventing mobile ARM from using more aggressive performance optimizations. Give it some more time to get into higher-power laptop and server variants designed to push much higher per-thread IPC.

Also, most of Intel's recent security flaws involve SMT, ARM does not have SMT yet.

 

[bit_user]

Also, most of Intel's recent security flaws involve SMT, ARM does not have SMT yet.

At least one of the fully custom ARMv8-A cores have it (ThunderX2), as does ARM's own Cortex-A65AE.