Researchers reveal “Sinkclose” vulnerability affecting nearly all AMD processors since 2006 [TechSpot]

On Saturday, IOActive’s Principal Security Consultant Enrique Nissim and Associate Principal Security Consultant Krzysztof Okupski delivered vulnerability research in a presentation titled AMD Sinkclose: Universal Ring-2 Privilege Escalation. According to the team’s presentation, its team noticed a flaw in one of the components required to secure an execution mode known…Read Entire Article