Hello fellow commanders,
In case you aren't aware, yet. Numerous security vulnerabilities have been found in Intel chipsets. A large number of hardware products is affected.
This is huge, because it allows attacks from the internet as soon as you are connected. Patching Windows or similar can not secure your system, because the vulnerabilities are within the firmware on the mainboards.
Fortunately there are patches available for most mainboards, servers, routers etc. already.
I urge everyone with an Intel chipset on their mainboard to check if the product is affected and to patch as soon as possible.
I'll link the official page on Intel's website but I advise anyone to check back with security experts you know and trust and google for yourselves.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en ... tware.html
I can't stress enough how critical this is and we can expect a gigantic shitstorm of worms, viruses, backddoors and whatnot now, that the details of these vulnerabilities are public.
Fly safe!
/Yeshe