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The acceleration of the adoption of digital technologies has led to greater agility and productivity through more effective collaboration and enabling remote working. However, it has also left organisations vulnerable to a whole new range of cybersecurity threats.
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The higher-rated advisories focus on privilege-escalation bugs in CPU firmware: Tough to patch, hard to exploit, tempting to a savvy attacker.
Intel has unleashed 29 security advisories to plug up some serious bugs in the BIOS firmware for Intel processors, as well as in its Bluetooth products, Active Management Technology tools, the NUC Mini PC line, and, ironically, in its own security library.
Details about the advisories can be found at Intel’s Product Security Center.
Intel’s senior director of communications, Jerry Bryant, said in a blog post on Wednesday that Intel’s mostly digging these security issues up internally – as in, 95 percent – through its own diligence, with big chunks of them coming through its bugs bounty program and the company’s own research.
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