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nzmaa@lemy.lol to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections

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‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections

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nzmaa@lemy.lol to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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Researchers warn that a bug in AMD’s chips would allow attackers to root into some of the most privileged portions of a computer—and that it has persisted in the company’s processors for decades.
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    If you have kernel access you can already do almost everything so a vulnerability on top of that isn’t that bad since no one should have kernel access to your computer

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      You mean like Crowdstrike?

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        Most All antivirus software runs at kernel level

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          Which is precisely the reason you shouldn’t use an AV apart from the one packaged with Windows

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      “They’re going for the kernel!”

      "Colonel who?"

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        Cancer. Brain. Brain cancer.

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