Intel: PC Manufacturers Will Patch AMT Security Flaw Starting May 8

[Lucian Armasu]

Intel said that OEMs should start shipping patches for the recently discovered Active Management Technology (AMT) privilege escalation vulnerability. Meanwhile, the company recommends system administrators to scan their systems and disable AMT.

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[Glock24]

I have a Gigabyte Q87M-D2H. Hopefully a patch is released for that board.

 

[Fiqar_]

Great article that. Especially loved the bit about identifying vulnerable systems. Really helpful!

 

[jimmysmitty]

[quotemsg=19652631,0,1754890]I have a Gigabyte Q87M-D2H. Hopefully a patch is released for that board.[/quotemsg]

What CPU do you have? Unless you have a CPU that is supported under the vPro this wont affect you as it is mainly the Business class products that have the full feature set for vPro.

If you have a K series CPU than it wouldn't work anyways.