nzmaa@lemy.lol to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infectionswww.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1219arrow-down135cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
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minus-squareBjornir@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53arrow-down2·3 months agoIf you have kernel access you can already do almost everything so a vulnerability on top of that isn’t that bad since no one should have kernel access to your computer
minus-squarerandompasta@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 months agoYou mean like Crowdstrike?
minus-squareHauntedCupcake@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·3 months agoMost All antivirus software runs at kernel level
minus-squareBjornir@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoWhich is precisely the reason you shouldn’t use an AV apart from the one packaged with Windows
minus-squareRob T Firefly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months ago“They’re going for the kernel!” "Colonel who?"
If you have kernel access you can already do almost everything so a vulnerability on top of that isn’t that bad since no one should have kernel access to your computer
You mean like Crowdstrike?
MostAll antivirus software runs at kernel levelWhich is precisely the reason you shouldn’t use an AV apart from the one packaged with Windows
“They’re going for the kernel!”
"Colonel who?"
Cancer. Brain. Brain cancer.