This morning Bloomberg is reporting a bombshell for hardware security. Companies like Amazon and Apple have found a malicious chip on their server motherboards. These are not counterfeit chips. They ...

Affected products used a firmware component named MergePoint EMS, made and supplied by Avocent, a software provider now a wholly-owned subsidiary of data center equipment and service provider Vertiv.

More than 47,000 workstations and servers, possibly more, running on Supermicro motherboards are currently open to attacks because administrators have left an internal component exposed on the ...