Hardware Hack

Now it looks as if the Chinese have managed to do a massive hardware hack into thousands of servers used by government agencies and major corporations. Nested on the servers’ motherboards, the testers found a tiny microchip, not much bigger than a grain of rice, that wasn’t part of the boards’ original design. Amazon reported the discovery to U.S. authorities, sending a shudder through the intelligence community. Elemental’s servers could be found in Department of Defense data centers, the CI...