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It's Time To Name And Shame - WAN Show June 2, 2023

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UEFI Boot Kit Contains Insecure Backdoor

Security researchers at a klipsium release findings showing millions of gigabyte motherboards were sold with an insecure backdoor. Eclipsium says the hidden code is meant to be an innocuous tool to keep the mother boards firmware updated, but it's been implemented insecurely. One URL uses HTTP, which is easily for an attacker to intercept and other links, which do use HTTPS are similarly vulnerable due to poorly implemented remote server certificate validation.

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