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Apple Deleted Server Supplier After Finding Infected Firmware in Servers

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday February 26 2017, @11:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the broken-out-of-the-box dept.

Fnord666 writes:

A mid-2016 security incident led to Apple purging its data centers of servers built by Supermicro, including returning recently purchased systems, according to a report by The Information. Malware-infected firmware was reportedly detected in an internal development environment for Apple's App Store, as well as some production servers handling queries through Apple's Siri service.

An Apple spokesperson denied there was a security incident. However, Supermicro's senior vice-president of technology, Tau Leng, told The Information that Apple had ended its relationship with Supermicro because of the compromised systems in the App Store development environment. Leng also confirmed Apple returned equipment that it had recently purchased. An anonymous source was cited as the source of the information regarding infected Siri servers.

[...] A source familiar with the case at Apple told Ars that the compromised firmware affected servers in Apple's design lab, and not active Siri servers. The firmware, according to the source, was downloaded directly from Supermicro's support site—and that firmware is still hosted there.

Source: ArsTechnica

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @08:42AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @08:42AM (#472170)

    I wonder if Tau Leng knows who did it

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @02:20PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @02:20PM (#472271)

    I'm sure those sneaky chinamen infected their own equipment via a malicious pact with the pinko commies in china to steal even more IP. The biggest disappointment in IT is the fact that we worry about US surveillance while completely forgetting that most if not close to all of our IT components are made in commie land. One day those gooks are going to phone it in and destroy our economy and the US, a war without ever firing a single shot. Then they get to strut around, with their racist yellow pride, yelling china #1! I hope Trump manages to fix the greedy fucks who export our manufacturing to hostile 3rd world shit holes. Fuck china. And fuck the greedy cunts who send our jobs there. I hope we send their economy down the crapper first and let half a billion of them starve to death. Too many of em anyway.

    • (Score: 1) by Frost on Monday February 27 2017, @02:27PM

      by Frost (3313) on Monday February 27 2017, @02:27PM (#472273)

      China is second world, not third world.

      The three worlds [wikipedia.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:54PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:54PM (#472856)

      Sounds like grandpa...