Chain of trust
2015-08-07 17:13:07.738001+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Design flaw in the x86 SMM portion of Intel chips opens door to rootkits:
Once installed, the rootkit could be used for destructive attacks like wiping the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) the modern BIOS or even to re-infect the OS after a clean install. Protection features like Secure Boot wouldnt help, because they too rely on the SMM to be secure.
I mean, not that you had any reason to trust your computer to begin with...