Millions of PC motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor

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Millions of PC motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor

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Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

Hidden code in many Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs.

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