> This is the scariest, stealthiest, and most dangerous rootkit I've > seen come around since the legendary Blue Pill [...] > This is serious and represents a massive new security threat for us all.
Well, all who insist on using CPUs with that sort of bug-waiting-to-happen in them. I'm glad to see this, though; it means that legitimate users of such CPUs can access a layer of their hardware that it sounds as though they mostly haven't been able to up to now. (I didn't know this "system management mode" even existed before this.) I wish I had the leisure to sit down and figure out enough of this to make a conventional OS run using that as its privileged mode, or at least hook into it - using this bug if necessary. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
