BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Bad hardware security: Pentium computers are vulnerable to cyberattack.

When the processor begins to overheat or encounters other conditions that could threaten the motherboard, the computer interrupts its normal operation, momentarily freezes and stores its activity, said Loïc Duflot, a computer security specialist for the French government’s Secretary General for National Defense information technology laboratory.

Cyberattackers can take over a computer by appropriating that safeguard to make the machine interrupt operations and enter System Management Mode, Duflot said. Attackers then enter the System Management RAM and replace the default emergency-response software with custom software that, when run, will give them full administrative privileges.

OK, remedy is on the road. Woodrecrest will not overheat so easily. But, what about with world's 80%+ of Xeon based small server base? But that hack is not possible, it is only a theoretical possibility! Well yes, until you remotely switch off processor fan. But that is not possible. Well, it is possible with the NSA small back door in some big companies like HP and Dell. Do you now understand why Dell so rapidly grows all those years? Software people would never thought on this simple hardware hacking. Paradoxically enough, in the end we will soon have millions hardware secure PS3 consoles and millions of insecure servers and security guards !?!

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