{"id":236946,"date":"2017-11-10T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T08:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=236946"},"modified":"2017-11-10T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T08:22:00","slug":"intel-skylake-processors-can-be-hacked-via-usb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/236946-intel-skylake-processors-can-be-hacked-via-usb.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel Skylake processors can be hacked via USB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Positive Technologies have found a vulnerability in Intel&#8217;s Management Engine CPU component, reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/security\/2017\/11\/09\/researchers-find-almost-every-computer-intel-skylake-cpu-can-owned-via-usb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Next Web<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The security flaw reportedly affects almost every CPU that is part of the Skylake lineup or newer.<\/p>\n<p>The Intel Management Engine (IME) component can be remotely accessed via a USB interface, which is a common attack vector.<\/p>\n<p>The IME is a physical component on the CPU which can access a collection of sensitive information, including encrypted storage and passwords.<\/p>\n<p>Many desktop and laptop processors shipped after 2008 are affected by the vulnerability, and there is no way to remove the affected component, stated the report.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/236538-the-standards-for-a-highly-secure-windows-10-pc.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The standards for a highly-secure Windows 10 PC<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positive Technologies has found a vulnerability in Intel&#8217;s Management Engine CPU component.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":232227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[131,47218,36584,47220,31934],"class_list":["post-236946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-intel","tag-intel-management-engine-ime","tag-kaby-lake","tag-positive-technologies","tag-skylake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236998,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236946\/revisions\/236998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}