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If Supermicro boards were so bug-ridden, why would hackers ever need implants?
Whether spy chips reported by Bloomberg existed, attackers had much easier options.By now, everyone knows the premise behind two unconfirmed Bloomberg articles that have dominated security headlines over the past week: spies from China got multiple factories to sneak data-stealing hardware into Supermicro motherboards before the servers that used them were shipped to Apple, Amazon, an unnamed major US telecommunications provider, and more than two dozen other unnamed companies.
Motherboards that wound up inside the networks of Apple, Amazon, and more than two dozen unnamed companies reportedly included a chip no bigger than a grain of rice that funneled instructions to the baseboard management controller, a motherboard component that allows administrators to monitor or control large fleets of servers, even when they’re turned off or corrupted. The rogue instructions, Bloomberg reported, caused the BMCs to download malicious code from attacker-controlled computers and have it executed by the server’s operating system.
Motherboards that Bloomberg said were discovered inside a major US telecom had an implant built into their Ethernet connector that established a “covert staging area within sensitive networks.” Citing Yossi Appleboum, a co-CEO of the security company reportedly hired to scan the unnamed telecom’s network for suspicious devices, Bloomberg said the rogue hardware was implanted at the time the server was being assembled at a Supermicro subcontractor factory in Guangzhou. Like the tiny chip reportedly controlling the BMC in Apple and Amazon servers, Bloomberg said the Ethernet manipulation was “designed to give attackers invisible access to data on a computer network.”
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dariena said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Forums look to still be pretty active too.
Beyond people laughing at them?
Cruel... but funny.
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Amazon patents Alexa tech to tell if you’re sick, depressed and sell you meds
Echo could analyze your voice to detect a "physical or emotional abnormality." -
Apple CEO Tim Cook calls on Bloomberg to retract its Chinese spy story
"We were very clear with them that this did not happen," Cook tells BuzzFeed.Apple CEO Tim Cook is calling on Bloomberg Business to retract a story that said his company was the victim of a hardware-based attack carried out by the Chinese government. It's the first time Apple has ever publicly demanded a retraction, according to BuzzFeed......
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How many bets how long it will take for them to use the new coc against him.
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@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How many bets how long it will take for them to use the new coc against him.
He's made it this long... Must be some kind of record, lol.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How many bets how long it will take for them to use the new coc against him.
He's made it this long... Must be some kind of record, lol.
Its' only been a few hours.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How many bets how long it will take for them to use the new coc against him.
He's made it this long... Must be some kind of record, lol.
Its' only been a few hours.
Every hour is a new record that he doesn't fly off the handle.
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
How many bets how long it will take for them to use the new coc against him.
He's made it this long... Must be some kind of record, lol.
Its' only been a few hours.
Every hour is a new record that he doesn't fly off the handle.
Precicesly.
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/merch-wars-why-free-socks-are-walking-all-over-t-shirts-514543
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/merch-wars-why-free-socks-are-walking-all-over-t-shirts-514543
Perhaps something for MangoCon?Good idea, I passed it on.
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@nadnerB Yeah the last conference I went to Sophos was giving away cool socks so I got some.
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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nadnerB Yeah the last conference I went to Sophos was giving away cool socks so I got some.
Sophos has been big in the sock game for a while. We have loads of Sophos socks.
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/25/blue-mix-fi-headphones-win-engineering-emmy/
Those might be a better investment than a pair of cheap studio monitors.
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