AMI Firmware Source Code, Private Key Leaked 148
Trailrunner7 writes "Source code and a private signing key for firmware manufactured by a popular PC hardware maker American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) have been found on an open FTP server hosted in Taiwan. Researcher Brandan Wilson found the company's data hosted on an unnamed vendor's FTP server. Among the vendor's internal emails, system images, high-resolution PCB images and private Excel spreadsheets was the source code for different versions of AMI firmware, code that was current as of February 2012, along with the private signing key for the Ivy Bridge firmware architecture. AMI builds the AMIBIOS BIOS firmware based on the UEFI specification for PC and server motherboards built by AMI and other manufacturers. The company started out as a motherboard maker, and also built storage controllers and remote management cards found in many Dell and HP computers. 'The worst case is the creation of a persistent, Trojanized update that would allow remote access to the system at the lowest possible level,' researcher Adam Caudill said. 'Another possibility would be the creation of an update that would render the system unbootable, requiring replacement of the mainboard.'"
Re:Link? (Score:2, Informative)
THEN CARE LESS.
The phrase is "I couldn't care less", you troglodyte.
Re:NOTHING IS LEAKED (Score:4, Informative)
md5sum Downloads/018s.zip
4ebc77526c2ea7c0387cc993252e682b Downloads/018s.zip
md5sum 018s/Keys/FW/.priKey
198e238540b93095f02ee763bdadba86 018s/Keys/FW/.priKey
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