Caporegime
If this is what it appears to be AMD need to be sure of it, call it and the madeup company a lie.
Force them to defend themselves.
Force them to defend themselves.
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From https://viceroyresearch.org/2018/03/13/amd-the-obituary/
WTF, who writes stuff like this and expects it to be taken seriously.
Short-seller Viceroy Research will be on @HalftimeReport today at Noon to discuss the new CTS Labs report alleging security flaws in $AMD chips.
Haha need physical access and admin privs? If you've got that the target is boned already. What a poorly done hatchet job.
Seems too dumb to be Intel, maybe some vendor company or fan group or similar? Be interesting to see what comes up.I doubt Intel is behind this, they are bent but not that stupid.
If they are then this will surely backfire in a very big way for them, its getting torn to pieces on the web so far.
It isn't fake information as far as I can see - just the implications being inflated by intimation.
I wonder what their angle is...
There's far more damning evidence than that:
24 hour disclosure instead of industry standard 90/180 day
Domain records for "amdflaws.com" were created on the Feb, 22, 2018 for this "16 years in operation" company.
It was also registered not directly but by "domainsbyproxy.com" thus no real contact information of the domain is public. It was used by fraudsters before.
Amdflaws links to a YT video, with comments disabled
YT Channel with video was just just March of this year
This sketchy "we might have economic interest by disclosing these vulnerability" from their disclaimer
Exploits have insane requirements like being able to defeat OEM BIOS flash protections and Windows' driver signing...
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AMD – The Obituary
TheStreet's founder and Action Alerts PLUS Portfolio Manager Jim Cramer said there's a concerted effort to keep shares of Advanced Micro Devices lower.
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Mines on my landline which I pretty much ignore these days.
That said, is this any surprise?
Short-seller Viceroy Research will be on @HalftimeReport today at Noon to discuss the new CTS Labs report alleging security flaws in $AMD chips.
I wonder what their angle is...
UPDATE -- Not going to get to the $AMD story today on @HalftimeReport
It is fake. Look at how few details they gave and the fact this was dropped with zero notice. Any reputable research report would contain exact details of which version of Windows they used, which CPUs they tested, what other software they were running on Windows and a test with an Intel CPU to ensure they are not affected. This is like claiming that your CPU is vulnerable because you ran "virus.exe" with admin rights and it bricked your windows OS. They have no proof it was due to AMD's specific architecture and not a flaw in Windows.