Buggy microcontrollers making up some of the world's most important servers can be easily backdoored
THE SO WHAT
Baseboard management controllers are once again the soft underbelly of critical servers—more than a dozen new flaws means out-of-band control planes are now prime compromise vectors. CISOs should treat BMC firmware and access paths as Tier 0 assets and push vendors for concrete remediation timelines.
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