[fwdude]

Darn. AMD was my go-to for a MicroLeftist alternative.

[bitt]

PING

[null and void]

China and Taiwan have a very cozy business relationship.

I rather doubt all these back doors are accidental.

Make no mistake, this is an act of war.

[Red Badger]

AMD Ping!...................

[DannyTN]

If we had high enough import tariffs, AMD wouldn’t be offshoring the production of these chips.

[PAR35]

So the Chinese added a back door into the chip? Shocking.

If Trump cared about national security, he’d put a tariff on foreign chips, not moving to protect the self serving management at Qualcomm at the expense of shareholders.

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[fella]

Didn’t AMD move its production to some communist run country?

[taxcontrol]

The white paper presents 4 attack vectors:

MasterKey
RyzenFall
Fallout
Chimera

MasterKey requires the ability to alter the BIOS

The other three require administrator privileges to exploit.

Chimera is the most dangerous in my mind as it is a chip / asic level error.

All four will require significant rework of the product line to fix.

Kind of crappy that CTS did not allow AMD the normal courtesy of 90 days notice before releasing the white paper.

[djf]

Waitin and waitin and waitin for somebody to show one of these flaws hitting an IBM machine...

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[ConservativeMind]

Folks, this only affects a small number of chips.

The article says the vulnerabilities affect the “AMD Secure Processor.” Folks, that’s only used in special chips corporations use to remotely manage their computers. Normal and high-end chips don’t have this.

From AMD:

“AMD Secure Processor is currently only available on select AMD A-Series and AMD E-Series APUs.”

https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/security

[TChad]

AMD's Response to date:

The View from Our Corner of The Street

We have just received a report from a company called CTS Labs claiming there are potential security vulnerabilities related to certain of our processors. We are actively investigating and analyzing its findings. This company was previously unknown to AMD and we find it unusual for a security firm to publish its research to the press without providing a reasonable amount of time for the company to investigate and address its findings. At AMD, security is a top priority and we are continually working to ensure the safety of our users as potential new risks arise. We will update this blog as news develops.