https://www.investopedia.com/news/china-used-tiny-chip-hack-apple-amazon-bloomberg/
China Used Tiny Chip to Hack Apple, Amazon
Well here is a really strange one… Bloomberg reports that a tiny chip was discovered embedded in their servers back in 2015 from tech giants Apple and Amazon. They suspect the responsible party to be Chinese spies. Bloomberg reports the chips come from a Chinese server company named Super Micro. China’s foreign ministry also issued a statement following the report, saying that “China is a resolute defender of cybersecurity.”
Here is the odd thing, Apple and Amazon are denying Bloombergs claims. Do you suppose that Apple, Amazon and the government were trying to keep this quiet to survey the spies? What are you thoughts about Apple/Amazon denying claims? Do you think Bloomberg’s reporters are lying?
I think the latest is that apple says no evidence of vulnerabilities or hacking by the Chinese in anyway.
Apple’s Vice President for Information Security George Stathakopoulos sent a letter to congress this weekend saying “Apple’s proprietary security tools are continuously scanning for precisely this kind of outbound traffic, as it indicates the existence of malware or other malicious activity. Nothing was ever found,”
GCHQ – the UK equivalent of the NSA has released a statement saying the believe Apple. So has the department of homeland security in the USA.
Regardless, it’s scary to think all our electronics are pretty much made in China, who knows what other things the Chinese government has done to any other personal devices we own including our phones. I think a lot more interesting information is going to come out in the next couple weeks.
Thanks for that addition. I figured that kind of threat was something Apple would have been mitigating. I am sure more information regarding this will come to the surface. It will be intriguing to watch.