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US-CERT Discloses Security Flaw In 64-Bit Intel Chips
Fnord666 writes "The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has disclosed a flaw in Intel chips that could allow hackers to gain control of Windows and other operating systems, security experts say. The flaw was disclosed the vulnerability in a security advisory released this week. Hackers could exploit the flaw to execute malicious code with kernel privileges, said a report in the Bitdefender blog. 'Some 64-bit operating systems and virtualization software running on Intel CPU hardware are vulnerable to a local privilege escalation attack,' the US-CERT advisory says. 'The vulnerability may be exploited for local privilege escalation or a guest-to-host virtual machine escape.'" According to the article, exposed OSes include "Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, 64-bit versions of FreeBSD and NetBSD, as well as systems that include the Xen hypervisor."
Sounds like a nice place to work
Govt agency (guaranteed job, cannot be fired, guaranteed pension, best in class benefits, though low salary atleast in India), deals with computers (so, work is play and play is work) and to top it off, you get to hack for fun AND get a cool acronym?
So, in other words... buy a Mac.
But then I get a slow as crap processor.