Dell ships motherboard with malicious code

[David Gerard]

On 22 July 2010 05:27, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 08:52 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> On Thursday, July 22, 2010 07:06 AM, Fred A. Miller wrote:

>>> Dell has confirmed that some of its PowerEdge server motherboards were
>>> shipped to customers with malware code on the embedded server management
>>> firmware.
>>> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/dell-ships-motherboard-with-malicious-code/6901?tag=nl.e589

>> I wonder why Chinese factories do that...they did the same with them
>> digital photo frames too. Twits.

> You would think that Dell would catch something like that BEFORE units
> were shipped.


These weren't the machines Dell shipped - this was malicious firmware
in spare parts. To their credit, they went public about it and are
doing their best to clean it up. But yeah, sudden tightening of
procedures.


- d.