Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor

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Hardware@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago

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Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor

kixik ( @kixik@lemmy.ml )

Hardware@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago

Hidden code in hundreds of models of Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs—a feature ripe for abuse, researchers say.

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1•1 year ago
This is wild. I’m on an Asrock board, so luckily not too affected. At the same time, with AMD’s PSP and Intel’s ME, nearly all boards are ‘backdoored’ to some extent anyway.