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AMD's processors have been shipping with a dangerous security bug

Researchers suggest throw away your computer if 'Sinkclose' flaw in AMD processors is exploited to run malware

Its long standing rival, Advanced Micro Devices - AMD - didn't say "hold my beer" but they might as well because the company's chips have been shipping with the super bad Sinkclose bug for decades. That bug was found by two researchers at security vendor IOActive, and affects "virtually all AMD chips dating back to 2006, or possibly even earlier," as Andy Greenberg at Wired, which was given first dibs on the story that broke at the legendary DEF CON hacking conference, wrote. How the Sinkclose bug works is pretty Deep Geek, but AMD chips have a System Management Mode (SMM) which has the highest privileges on a computer.

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