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Musings on Supply Chain Vulnerability in Light of “The Big Hack”
At the beginning October 2018, Bloomberg dropped a bomb by publishing "The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate America's Top Companies". The story claims that between 2014-2015, Supermicro server motherboards had a small IC inserted onto the PCB, possibly connected to the baseboard management controller (BMC). The chip allowed attackers to …