Good morning, and welcome to Tuesday’s Daily Authority! We’re back, and Happy New Year to you all! I feel like I’m still recovering from all the food and drink consumed over the holidays, and I’m sure I’m not alone. Without further ado, let’s dive straight into today’s top tech news, including a couple of Samsung stories to get started…
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Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Thousands of Internet-connected servers sold by the world’s biggest manufacturers can be remotely backdoored by exploiting critical vulnerabilities—some more than a decade old—that lurk deep inside system motherboards, according to research presented Wednesday. Baseboard management Read more…