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Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kixik@lemmy.ml to c/hardware@lemmy.ml

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[–] No_Huckleberry_2023@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Hi tech geeks! First post on Lemmy.

I believe this would be exploited in a sense like a "man in the middle"... so it isn't as "alarming" as a true backdoor. Just disable the "app center download" in the bios. Mine was enabled upon first install of my new X570S board, but I was knowing what this type of setting this was prior to this issue being published .. I already had a feeling this should be disabled.