Peaches Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Researchers Hack Into Intel's VPro Robert McMillan, IDG News Service Sort By Rating Rating Date Performance Price Get Reviews Close “Security researchers said they've found a way to circumvent an Intel vPro security feature used to protect PCs and the programs that they run from tampering. Invisible Things Labs researchers Rafal Wojtczuk and Joanna Rutkowska said they've created software that can "compromise the integrity" of software loaded using the Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) that is part of Intel's vPro processor platform. That's bad news, because TXT is supposed to help protect software -- a program running within a virtual machine, for example -- from being seen or tampered with by other programs on the machine. Formerly code-named LaGrande, TXT first started shipping in some Intel-based PCs last year. Although almost no software uses the TXT technology today, the research could matter a lot to computer companies and government agencies that are thinking of using it to secure their future products. Wojtczuk and Rutkowska said they've created a two-stage attack, with the first stage exploiting a bug in Intel's system software. The second stage relies on a design flaw in the TXT technology itself, they said in an announcement of their work, released Monday†Story: . http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/arti...ntels_vpro.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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