It’s rare that the kids, parents, and grandparents are affected by any one problem, but that’s exactly what’s happened with the case of the recently discovered Management Engine bug in Intel ...

There is growing unrest concerning the scope and potential for mischief arising from the deployment of modern processors packing Intel’s Management Engine. Back in May the EFF published an article ...

Intel ME, AMT, SMT, V-Pro… All of these acronyms are kind of intimidating, all we know about them is that they are tied to remote control technologies rooted deep in Intel CPUs, way deeper than even ...

System76 is one a handful of companies that sells computers that run Linux software out of the box. But like most PCs that have shipped with Intel’s Core processors in the past few years, System76 ...

The issue is in an Intel chip used for remote management. A critical security bug in the Intel Converged Security and Manageability Engine (CSME) could allow escalation of privilege, denial of service ...

If you have a computer with an Intel processor that’s newer than about 2007, odds are high that it also contains a mystery software package known as the Intel Management Engine (ME). The ME has ...

Linux computer vendor System76 announced this week that it will roll out a firmware update to disable Intel Management Engine on laptops sold in the past few years. Purism will also disable Intel ...

I'm not entirely sure where to put this question, but it has to do more with software than anything else, so this seemed like the most appropriate place. Recently, I got a "new" refurbished Thinkpad ...

Hidden inside your Intel-based computer is a mystery program called Management Engine (ME). It, along with Trusted Execution Engine (TXE) and Server Platform Services (SPS), can be used to remotely ...

It has been suggested that the microprocessors we use each and every day could pack in a bit more than we bargained for; namely, the tools needed for spying or undetectable access. And unfortunately, ...