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Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers

via Ars Technica·independent coverage, not Tech Spindle reporting
Why this ranksSecurity Vuln
59TS ScoreImpact + Innovation, combined
IMPACT72
INNOVATION45

Our take: Decade-old unpatched BMC vulns affecting thousands; serious but not novel attack class.

Why Impact & Innovation? We ask two questions of every story: did this actually change something in the real world (Impact), and is the idea genuinely new (Innovation)? Together, that's the TS Score — not engagement, not who posted it, just what matters and what's new.

Thousands of enterprise servers from major manufacturers can be remotely backdoored by exploiting critical vulnerabilities in their baseboard management controllers that have gone unpatched for over a decade.

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