http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/researcher-claims-to-have-discovered-universal-attack-code-for-i/
Researcher claims to have discovered universal attack code for Intel chips: No one is safe
Also, he says he found Intel's diary and is totally telling everybody about that one thing. But seriously, we think Kris Kaspersky is being a bit of a tease here. He claims to have found a flaw in Intel's processors that would allow a hacker to bust up on a computer using JavaScript or TCP/IP, with no regard for what operating system the computer is running... only he won't say what it is. He's planning on unveiling the attack at the Hack In The Box conference in Malaysia this October, where he says he'll show working code that can take control of computers, all of which he plans to release publicly. The attack takes advantage of known errata in chips, which most vendors have a workaround for in BIOS, but not all. XP, Vista, Linux, BSD and Mac operating systems are all vulnerable, so we all get to run around panicking until October -- unless somebody figures it out first.
To: Swordmaker
2 posted on
07/16/2008 1:00:01 PM PDT by
T. Buzzard Trueblood
("Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it." - Senator Barack Obama)
To: CarrotAndStick
“we think Kris Kaspersky is being a bit of a tease here”
He’s trying to inflate sales of his Antivirus product?
3 posted on
07/16/2008 1:02:24 PM PDT by
rahbert
To: CarrotAndStick
Sadly, these guys are a necessary evil in our business. If not for them and other white hats, we'd get code worse than what we have - which is pretty loose IMO.
Parasites as they may be, at least they keep the developers feet close to the fire.
4 posted on
07/16/2008 1:05:15 PM PDT by
paulcissa
(The first requirement of Liberalism is to stand on your head and tell the world they're upside down)
To: CarrotAndStick
This is why I don’t normally use my Wintel box to cruise the net.
Who tries to take over an old PowerPC box?
6 posted on
07/16/2008 1:10:10 PM PDT by
null and void
(Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
To: CarrotAndStick
Well the Mac biggots wou’t have an opportunity to smirk now that Macintosh has been ported to Intel.
To: CarrotAndStick
I bet the Chinese are going to be buying him dinner and trying to get him drunk now too...
8 posted on
07/16/2008 1:11:18 PM PDT by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: CarrotAndStick
Way to h4x0r the G1bs0n.
As for this, I’ll believe it when I see it.
Taking over an operating system by using ‘Javascript or TCP/IP’ sounds like something that some IRC kiddie would dream up.
To: CarrotAndStick
This brings new meaning to Intel’s mantra “Intel inside”.
10 posted on
07/16/2008 2:05:52 PM PDT by
LuxMaker
(The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, Thomas J 1819)
To: CarrotAndStick
11 posted on
07/16/2008 2:28:05 PM PDT by
GOP Poet
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