{"id":122023,"date":"2017-11-11T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122023"},"modified":"2017-11-10T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:48:13","slug":"major-vulnerability-found-in-intel-processors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/122023-major-vulnerability-found-in-intel-processors","title":{"rendered":"Major vulnerability found in Intel processors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Positive Technologies have found a vulnerability in Intel\u2019s Management Engine CPU component, reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/security\/2017\/11\/09\/researchers-find-almost-every-computer-intel-skylake-cpu-can-owned-via-usb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Next Web<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The security flaw reportedly affects almost every CPU that is part of the Skylake lineup or newer.<\/p>\n<p>The Intel Management Engine (IME) component can be remotely accessed via a USB interface, which is a common attack vector.<\/p>\n<p>The IME is a physical component on the CPU which can access a collection of sensitive information, including encrypted storage and passwords.<\/p>\n<p>Many desktop and laptop processors shipped after 2008 are affected by the vulnerability, and there is no way to remove the affected component, stated the report.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/236538-the-standards-for-a-highly-secure-windows-10-pc.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The standards for a highly-secure Windows 10 PC<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Positive Technologies have found a vulnerability in Intel\u2019s Management Engine CPU component, reported\u00a0The Next Web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":114335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12465,25355,1727],"class_list":["post-122023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-cpu","tag-ime","tag-intel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}