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Renting out dedicated cloud server hardware? Don't just grin and bare it. Check your firmware is scrubbed of any spies
Tuesday February 26, 2019. 09:47 AM , from TheRegister
Infosec bods spot IBM SoftLayer not wiping down BMC flash memory after use
Cloud providers renting out bare-metal servers must make sure they scrub every last byte of writable storage on their boxes between deployments, infosec outfit Eclypsium has urged. Otherwise, malicious customers could stash malware in motherboard flash memory that activates when the next user of a machine powers it up.…
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