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WaPo writes about vulnerabilities in Supermicro IPMIs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Aug 15 21:00:20 2013

Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:00:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Presumably, everyone else's are very religious as well.

Is anyone here stupid enough not to put the management interfaces behind
a firewall/VPN?

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/14/researchers-figure-out-how-to-hack-tens-of-thousands-of-servers/

And should I be nervous that Usenix pointed me *there* for the story, 
rather than a tech press outlet?

Cheers,
-- jra
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