Gigabyte is a major motherboard manufacturer if you’re going DIY. Apparently, it also has a backdoor that will install updates to the firmware. Where this goes south, is that the servers that serve up the firmware updates, are not secure. This could lead to a major serious hack against many PC owners, in an area that isn’t easily fixed. There’s a lot to this, but the biggest thing right now is that it’s a major blunder by Gigabyte, and will set them back for a while. There’s a link available at CTR that will tell you if you have one of the hundreds of models that are affected.
Gigabyte’s motherboard backdoor installs software updates from unsecured web servers.
Found at www.pcworld.com
