Cloudborne vulnerability affecting baseboard management controllers exposes cloud servers to potential hacking

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Baseboard management controllers give administrators remarkable control over servers inside data centres

Researchers have discovered a new security vulnerability, dubbed Cloudborne, which could enable attackers to exploit a component of server motherboards to compromise organisations' data stored in t...

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