Hackers Can Make Computers Destroy Their Own Chips with Electricity

Matthew Sparkes, *New Scientist*, 19 Jan 2023,
via ACM TechNews, 23 Jan 2023

Zitai Chen and David Oswald at the U.K.'s University of Birmingham uncovered
a bug in the control systems of server motherboards that could be exploited
to compromise sensitive information or to destroy their central processing
units (CPUs). The researchers found a feature in the Supermicro X11SSL-CF
motherboard often used in servers that they could tap to upload their own
control software. Chen and Oswald discovered a flash …

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