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Hackable Intel and Lenovo hardware that went undetected for 5 years won’t ever be fixed

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Enlarge (credit: Intel) Hardware sold for years by the likes of Intel and Lenovo contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability that will never be fixed. The cause: a supply chain snafu involving an open source software package and hardware from multiple manufacturers that directly or indirectly incorporated it into their …

Vulnerabilities in Supermicro BMCs could allow for unkillable server rootkits

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) If your organization uses servers that are equipped with baseboard management controllers from Supermicro, it’s time, once again, to patch seven high-severity vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit to gain control of them. And sorry, but the fixes must be installed manually. Typically abbreviated as …