by wwarren | Nov 21, 2017 | AMD, Hardware, Intel, Security
AMD is now releasing their Ryzen Pro cpu offerings for businesses. AMD is claiming their “management” solution is more secure than IntelME. Given the extremely low bar set by IntelME that’s not hard to accomplish. I have not had the time to...
by wwarren | Nov 19, 2017 | Annoucements, Security
As if the Minix OS that runs on the chipset of ALL Intel processors isn’t enough…it has now been shown that you do not even need any complicated steps to get to the IntelMe engine. You can now access JTAG over ANY PCH(southbridge) and it is called...
by wwarren | Nov 17, 2017 | Amazon, Cloud Computing, Internet, IOT, Security
Amazon Key IMO is a bad idea. The fact that it is based on IOT makes it worse. The very concept of you give someone access to your house with no other controls…there’s a camera to watch them but a camera will not stop anyone from doing anything...
by wwarren | Nov 14, 2017 | Apple, Hardware, Security, Security Alerts, Smartphone, Tablets
We all know google mines everything..that’s been well established by Google themselves. We knew Apple mined our data and “keeps it private”. I always called BS on their privacy stance…Here’s the proof:...
by wwarren | Nov 8, 2017 | Security
The instant I saw folks start pandering the absurd theory that China or Russia had financed this attack I knew it was bogus. The problem was a well-known and well published vulnerability in their website that their site(and many other larger websites) used called...
by wwarren | Oct 17, 2017 | Annoucements, Security, Security Alerts, WIFI
*UPDATE* It turns out Linux is especially vulnerable to this vulnerability. this means Android is especially vulnerable. Linux(and by extension Android) can be tricked into using a zero encryption key which means the attacker can easily watch all traffic on that...
