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Yup definitely. It was about SMCI too. It's not just you: at least two of us are having deja vu.
by TacticalCoder 1y ago
Yup definitely. It was about SMCI too. It's not just you: at least two of us are having deja vu.
- formerly_proven 1y agoIf you expect the BMCs of other vendors to be significantly more secure than the average home router from 2010 I have several bridges you may be interested in.
- tecleandor 1y agoDifferent. In 2018 there was articles [0] talking about hacked Supermicro servers being in the wild that had (simplifying) extra ICs in their motherboard, like some short of supply chain attack. But AFAIK, tangible evidence never surfaced. [1] -- 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18176620 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19910537
- alex77456 1y agoI remember it too, but vaguely remember evidence of compromised boards
- PoorlyNamed 1y agoThe story is called "The Big Hack" and was run by Bloomberg in 2018. All the major companies named in the story conducted investigations and never found anything, but the story was never retracted. https://www.bloomberg.com/2018-the-big-hack https://www.bloomberg.com/2018-the-big-hack
- 4ggr0 1y agowonder who got short-options on SMCI in 2018 :)