Firmware remote vulnerability in Intel business products
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Subject: Intel's Management Technology is indeed vulnerable
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 19:49:54 +0200 (CEST)
From: I love OpenBSD <lampshade(a)poczta.fm>
To: misc(a)openbsd.org
INTEL-SA-00075
There is an escalation of privilege vulnerability in Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT), Intel® Standard Manageability (ISM), and Intel® Small Business Technology versions firmware versions 6.x, 7.x, 8.x 9.x, 10.x, 11.0, 11.5, and 11.6 that can allow an unprivileged attacker to gain control of the manageability features provided by these products.
Can I preview a bitlink before clicking on it?
https://support.bitly.com/hc/en-us/articles/230650447-Can-I-preview-a-bitli…
Arstechnica:
http://bit.ly/2qyHCQn
Semiaccurate:
http://bit.ly/2pB2MjO
Intel's PDF:
http://intel.ly/2qAK4G0
Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote:
>
> My biggest rant is as follows:
> "Originally the plan was for a government INVESTMENT of $26.9 billion;
> with monies coming back as a return on investment upon eventual sale of
> the network. Now we have the real white elephant version at a cost of
> $60+ billion and there won't be many suiters willing to buy it unless
> they can pick it up for a song. Hence, we'll lose a very significant
> amount (if not every cent), that is spent on this far inferior version
> that is Turncoat's mess."
It seems to me part of the problem has been that optical-fibre has
always been compared with;
alternatives like ADSL over copper, cell-phone wireless on the basis of
current data transfer rates,
which are good, but not 'disruptive' ie around 100Mb/s. The message
which NBN failed to convey,
was that fibre has vastly more potential. They should have been
marketing that potential,
so that politicians like Malcom Turnbull, who regardless of his
financial prowess is a technology,
dumb-cluck; got the message.
For example it took me little time to find :
"Earlier this year, global telecoms company Alcatel-Lucent claims to
have set a new fibre optic
world record with an impressive 31 Tbit/s data transfer over a single
fibre cable,
overtaking the previous record of 26 Tbit/s set by The Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology
(KIT) in May 2011, by a team of German, UK and Swiss scientists."
at :https://www.warwicknet.com/blog/how-fast-can-fibre-optic-go
Now this seems to be a more modern fibre-optic cable from that the NBN
is laying,
but we should have heard about potential data-tranfere rates (DTR) for
the cable the NBN is laying,
if they had any imagination. Just off the top of my head I would expect
cell-phone DTR to be tied to
the frequency of the carrier wave but the frequency of that wave sets
the cell size.
So to double the cell-phone DTR you need a technology that doubles the
frequency and
in consequence halves the cell size and quadruples the number of towers.
Where as for NBN fibre (up to some limit), the DTR can be increased by
orders of magnitude;
without costs other than the sending and recieving technology.
regards Rohan McLeod
Assembled cognoscenti;
in the context of the current national security concerns,
regarding ZTE and Huawei.
1/ Does anyone know whether these relate to software eg OS or hardware ?
2/ To what extent do these also affect privacy and personal security ?
Given the hardware issues (previous thread) discovered in Samsung
Galaxy hardware,
by Lineage developers; not to mention the proprietary issues with
Android "spyware for Google";
might it not be useful to encourage ZTE and Huawei to start a campaign,
advertising privacy and security issues in the hardware and software of
mobile phones,
from non-chinese companies ?
regards Rohan McLeod
egrep -i "^[a-folstq]{4}$" /usr/share/dict/british-english-large
You really should be using IPv6 if possible. The above command can help you
find good IPv6 addresses.
egrep -i "^[a-folstq]{4}$" /usr/share/dict/british-english-large|tr [A-Z] [a-
z]|tr [olstq] [01579]
The above command does the same but converts letters above F to 1ee7 speak
equivalents.
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