[Beowulf] Hacked MBs It was only a matter of time

Andrew Latham lathama at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 07:17:46 PDT 2018


1. Everyone has Supermicro stuff somewhere (important note that the attack
could have been any brand with majority share so replace with
$popularvendor)
2. Supermicro makes embedded boards too
3. It is safe to assume the worst at all times and run a honeypot on vlan1
and limit new outbound connections. This is true of software and hardware.

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 8:48 AM Douglas Eadline <deadline at eadline.org> wrote:

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> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
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> (limited free articles)
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> First question: So who has Supermicro motherboards?
> Second question: Where else are these devices?
> Third question: Who else is making/inserting these kind of devices?
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