Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold with a Firmware Backdoor

Re:Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold with a Firmware Bac... by yrro on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @01:44PM (#36141224)

Why don't _all_ models of Gigabyte motherboard have firmware upgradable with a simple 'fwupdmgr update'?

Let the people who actaully know how to implement secure software repositories and tools for fetching content from them do their jobs. Motherboard manufacturers should stick to what _they're_ good at and just produce timely firmware updates throughout the life of the product.

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Re:Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold with a Firmware Bac... by wmf on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:21PM (#36141818)

This wouldn't help 99% of Gigabyte customers.

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Re:Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold with a Firmware Bac... by wtfishackernews on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:53PM (#36144873)

While fwupd does have a windows client, the obvious mechanism to use would be windows update, but anything is better than custom software for each vendor.

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Re:Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold with a Firmware Bac... by yrro on Thursday June 01, 2023 @12:26PM (#36153485)

fwupd and Windows Update both use the same underlying packaging mechanism for shipping firmware updates. All my comments apply equally to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/b... :)

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Re:Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold with a Firmware Bac... by WirelessGigabit on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:47AM (#36152822)

For many pieces of software you NEED Windows to run the firmware upgrade application. Example the WD SN 850x.

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Re:Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold with a Firmware Bac... by yrro on Thursday June 01, 2023 @12:25PM (#36153469)

Yes and it's DISGUSTING

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