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> The manufacturers’ forensic teams examined all of our systems to ensure that no access or persistence was gained. Nothing was found, but we replaced the hardw
by readyplayernull 3y ago
> The manufacturers’ forensic teams examined all of our systems to ensure that no access or persistence was gained. Nothing was found, but we replaced the hardware anyway.
Aha, the old replace-your-trusted-hardware trick.
- zitterbewegung 3y agoManufacturers have had security vulnerabilities for hardware to the point that the firmware on device couldn’t be trusted to be replaced so they said to get new hardware so it’s not a bad strategy.
- AzzyHN 3y agoIn a corporate environment, standard procedure when an employee's computer gets infected is to re-image it. Even if it was a stupid virus that was immediately caught, the potential risk of undetected malware running amuck is just too high. Now imagine, instead of Steve from HR's laptop, it's one of Cloudflare's servers.