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Alert issued over plain text passwords in some Super Micro motherboards |
June 20, 2014
Tens of thousands of servers have a hard-coded, plain-text password that could yield remote access to a management interface for a server, according to a security researcher.The problem is within a baseband management controller (BMC) in the WPCM450 line of chips incorporated into motherboards made by Super Micro, wrote Zachary Wikholm, senior security engineer for Cari.net, a server and cloud computing company.Baseboard management controllers are part of intelligent platform management interfaces (IPMI), which collect information on the health of the hardware and software data.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2366020/alert-issued-over-plain-text-passwords-in-some-super-micro-motherboards.html#tk.rss_all
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