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Google researchers uncover critical security flaw in all AMD Zen processors (www.techspot.com)

submitted 11 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub

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[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The researchers discovered that AMD had been using a publicly available example key from NIST documentation since Zen 1,

lol... sigh...

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just like all the BIOSes that have turned out to be using keys called things like TEST ONLY - NOT FOR PRODUCTION, rendering Secure Boot not. I have a couple of computers like this.