Security researchers identified a significant security flaw with Intel AMT(Active Management Technology) utilized for remote monitoring and maintenance in corporate workplaces and it can be found in Intel vPro-enabled processors.

The flaw allows attackers to gain remote access to your laptops within seconds by simply log in using the default password and then enabling remote access by changing user permission.

BIOS password is to Prevent unauthorized access to the system and the problem here is attacker does not need BIOS password to setup AMT.

Intel busy in providing patches for Meltdown and Spectre which affects Intel, AMD, ARM processors and this unexpected behavior in Intel AMT reported by security F-secure security researchers. We hope firmware updates will be available soon.

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