Steve Grobman of Intel has a new blob post which talks about — amongst other things — concerns of backdoors in the Intel Management Engine.
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Intel blog: attackers moving down toward hardware
I always miss lots of firmware news. 😦 I just now noticed this blog post from 11/2015 from Intel Security executives:
Hardware.Next: Diving deeper into the stack—understanding the dangers of hardware and firmware vulnerabilities
https://blogs.mcafee.com/executive-perspectives/hardware-next-hardware-firmware-vulnerabilities-provide-tools-attackers-defenders/
It gives me a big ‘deja-vu’ to the 4/2014 blog post from elsewhere at Intel:
Attackers Expand to Hack Hardware
https://communities.intel.com/community/itpeernetwork/blog/2015/04/15/attackers-expand-to-hack-hardware
I guess if you’re a chip company, this will be your perspective, that attackers are coming from usermode down to attack their hardware.
Steve Grobman on HW/FW vulnerability tools
Steve Grobman of Intel has written a blog post “Hardware.Next: Hardware and firmware vulnerabilities provide tools to attackers and defenders.” Steve Grobman is the CTO for Intel Security Group at Intel Corporation.
The post mentions Intel SGX — which may’ve been updated with DXL support, not sure what DXL is yet — and other Intel and related security technologies, including CHIPSEC.
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/bios?n=Steven%20L.%20Grobman&f=searchAll
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