Researchers figured out how to disable the Intel ME controller on Intel chipsets

You still remember when **** hit the fan in this may and the AMT (Active Management Technology) blank password bug was found out?

Well now, it seems that the whole **** Intel ME backdoor that runs the AMT can finally be disabled.

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/08/29/disable-intel-me/

And this was *very* interesting:

"They are planning to release a lot of their findings in the coming days, but in the meantime they shared how Intel ME can be disabled altogether and permanently, thanks to an undocumented mode that had been implemented after the US government requested the option."

And Intel says it does not design backdoors? Yeah..riiiiiight

In meanwhile let's take a look how many servers that expose AMT to public is still out there:
https://www.shodan.io/search?query=http intel active management

Hmmm...3707 servers still exposed to public but luckily most of them have at least patched their systems (with quick, 7 min browsing managed to take control of only 5 of them).

Was lot worse. One time there were over 5000 of them public and several unpatched ....
(so many in fact that I lost interest of hijacking and creating admin accounts for myself and went to my other stuff)