Security News > 2018 > August > The off-brand 'military-grade' x86 processors, in the library, with the root-granting backdoor

Dive into a weird and wonderful 'feature' of Via's embedded hardware chips Black Hat A forgotten family of x86-compatible processors still used in specialist hardware, and touted for "military-grade security features," has a backdoor that malware and rogue users can exploit to completely hijack systems.…

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