A decade-long security vulnerability affecting AMD chips
A long-standing security flaw in AMD CPUs known as Sinkclose may render affected computers essentially unfixable. Enrique Nissim and Krzysztof Okupski, security professionals at IOActive, revealed the vulnerability to Wired before to the Defcon hacking convention. The method takes advantage of a TClose feature that keeps older devices’ system management memory compatible. By tricking the…