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The Software Side of China's Supply Chain Attack (bloomberg.com)
Bloomberg BusinessWeek published a story on Thursday which claimed that data center equipments run by Amazon Web Services and Apple were subject to surveillance from the Chinese government via a tiny microchip inserted during the equipment manufacturing process. Both Amazon and Apple have vehemently refuted Bloomberg's reporting. Bloomberg's reporters, who have spent more than a year on the story and have cited 17 sources for the claims they make in it, have doubled down. In a new story, the news outlet reports that Supermicro was the target of at least two additional forms of attack. This report claims that Facebook was aware of these attacks, too, which has confirmed it. From the story: The first of the other two prongs involved a Supermicro online portal that customers used to get critical software updates, and that was breached by China-based attackers in 2015. The problem, which was never made public, was identified after at least two Supermicro customers downloaded firmware -- software installed in hardware components -- meant to update their motherboards' network cards, key components that control communications between servers running in a data center. The code had been altered, allowing the attackers to secretly take over a server's communications, according to samples passed around at the time among a small group of Supermicro customers. One of these customers was Facebook.
"In 2015, we were made aware of malicious manipulation of software related to Supermicro hardware from industry partners through our threat intelligence industry sharing programs," Facebook said in an emailed statement. "While Facebook has purchased a limited number of Supermicro hardware for testing purposes confined to our labs, our investigations reveal that it has not been used in production, and we are in the process of removing them." The victims considered the faulty code a serious breach. Further reading: Bloomberg's spy chip story reveals the murky world of national security reporting.
"In 2015, we were made aware of malicious manipulation of software related to Supermicro hardware from industry partners through our threat intelligence industry sharing programs," Facebook said in an emailed statement. "While Facebook has purchased a limited number of Supermicro hardware for testing purposes confined to our labs, our investigations reveal that it has not been used in production, and we are in the process of removing them." The victims considered the faulty code a serious breach. Further reading: Bloomberg's spy chip story reveals the murky world of national security reporting.
To pretend there's no chinese espionage. And Tienneman square never happened.
Maybe if they post enough the government won't harvest their organs.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, until someone publish a technical paper that can be peer reviewed
with detailed information of the chip and how its works, this is a misinformed article at best or a propaganda at worse.
And why we have a senator with a Chinese spy on her staff
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
If you believe anything Marc Thiessen writes then you're as dumb as he is. Mr. Thiessen is the most disingenuous writer and greatest partisan hack I know besides Megan McArdle who is so insanely partisan that she argued in favor of insider trading after Republican Rep. Chris Collins was caught doing it!
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
A thesaurus shows that they are not synonyms. A dictionary shows why not.