Re:The Big Hack: Statements From Amazon, Apple, Supermicro, ...
by pdpi on Thursday October 04, 2018 @09:34AM
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There's enough "usual" vulnerabilities that the practice of fixing them has a name: hardening. For supermicro motherboards specifically, "open services with really shitty default credentials" is apparently one of them — definitely one that is common in a lot of other contexts.
In this context, "unusual" vulnerabilities would be evidence of a deliberate attack, rather than just common security mistakes.
In this context, "unusual" vulnerabilities would be evidence of a deliberate attack, rather than just common security mistakes.