woot, 2018 is going out with a bang for widespread hardware hacks (spectre/meltdown was just the tip of the iceberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...-top-companies
tl;dr implants size of a rice or as small as a pencil-tip, found on ethernet jacks, and the world's largest maker of server motherboards have been slipped in by china's people liberation army during the manufacturing process
supposedly amazon, apple, nasa, pentagon, homeland security, cia drone footage, network on us navy warships, all compromised
originally revealed during near the end of Obama's administration
wiki also does a nice summary
Quote:
On October 4, 2018, Bloomberg Businessweek published a report, citing unnamed corporate and governmental sources, claiming that the Chinese People's Liberation Army had forced Supermicro's Chinese sub-contractors to add microchips with hardware backdoors to its servers. The report claimed that the compromised servers had been sold to U.S. government divisions (including the CIA and Department of Defense) and contractors, and at least 30 commercial clients (including Apple),[10] and were reportedly discovered by Amazon during a review of Elemental Technologies—a Supermicro client which Amazon would acquire in 2015.[10][11][12] Supermicro denied the report, stating that they had not been contacted by government agencies and were unaware of any investigation. Amazon and Apple also denied the Bloomberg claims, and the article has faced skepticism over its validity.[13][11][14] One of its named sources stated that the attack detailed seemed theoretical, and that he "couldn't rationalize in my head that this is the approach that anyone could take."[15]
On October 9, 2018, Bloomberg issued a new report, alleging that Supermicro-manufactured datacenter servers of an unnamed U.S. telecom firm had been compromised by a similar hardware implant, found on an ethernet connector. The report cited former Israel intelligence officer Yossi Appleboum, who had analyzed and documented the implant. The Bloomberg report did not connect these findings to the previous report.[16][17] Appleboum has since said that his company had found such implants "...in different vendors, not just Supermicro..."[18] FBI director, James Wray in testimony before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee has falsified these reports stating "Be careful what you read." |
University of Cambridge says the allegation passes their 'sniff test'
https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/...rboard-attack/
maybe Pentagon and Australia banning ZTE/Huawei and Kanye x Trump's plan to bring Yeezy's and phone manufacturing State side isn't the worst idea
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