ZDNet

Researchers say Intel's Management Engine feature can be switched off

It seems some government customers can request Intel's always-on Management Engine (ME) 'master controller' for its CPUs to be disabled. That's not an option for the general public, but researchers at ...
Hackaday

Is Intel’s Management Engine Broken?

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines states, “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” This law remains unassailable. However, recent claims have called into question a ...
ZDNet

Computer vendors start disabling Intel Management Engine

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 ...
Liliputing

Dell also sells laptops with Intel Management Engine disabled

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 ...
Wired

Intel Chip Flaws Leave Millions of Devices Exposed

Security researchers have raised the alarm for years about the Intel remote administration feature known as the Management Engine. The platform has a lot of useful features for IT managers, but it ...
ExtremeTech

Intel Patches Major Flaws in the Intel Management Engine

Intel has released a new set of updates for the Intel Management Engine. There are multiple significant security vulnerabilities in the engine that this should address, once OEMs make fixes available.
Liliputing

Intel confirms security vulnerabilities in Intel Management Engine

Intel has come under fire recently for bundling hidden firmware on some chips. While Intel Management Engine provides some hardware-based security and power management features, it’s also a completely ...
ExtremeTech

Dell Sells PCs Without Intel's Management Engine, but With Tradeoffs

Last week, we reported that Dell had become the first major OEM to sell laptops that didn't use the Intel Management Engine. The move was significant, both because of Dell's size and because the other ...
Bleeping Computer

Intel Fixes Critical Bugs in Management Engine, Its Secret CPU-On-Chip

Intel published a security advisory last night detailing eight vulnerabilities that impact core CPU technologies such as the Intel Management Engine (ME), Intel Server Platform Services (SPS), and ...
Hexus

Intel Management Engine runs on MINIX 3 OS

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 ...
Hackaday

Neutralizing Intel’s Management Engine

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intel’s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME ...