Free Bonus on Some Dell Server Motherboards: Malware
Free Bonus on Some Dell Server Motherboards: Malware
Posted 07/21/2010 at 3:04pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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If your place of business has a server running on a PowerEdge R410 motherboard, you might want to have a talk with Dell. According to the PC maker, a "small number" of these motherboards were shipped to customers with malicious code on them. The exact nature of the malware isn't clear, but disturbingly, it is embedded in the server management firmware.
Dell only commented on the situation after a customer wrote about being contacted by Dell support to schedule an appointment to remove the malware. There have been no reports of customer security breaches due to these motherboards. The code in question is only a danger to servers running a Windows OS.
Dell is doing the right thing now, and is contacting all customers that bought the boards. Though, we wish they'd have prevented this in the first place, or at the very least, fessed up faster. This is just one of the risks when your components are built in a factory half a world away.
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win7fanboi
July 21, 2010 at 4:29pm
nice... not only dell isn't the cheapest option anymore... it allowed this to happen... makes me wonder about my desktop.. i wouldn't know if it had something similar
Biceps
July 21, 2010 at 3:36pm
This is one of the main reasons the US gov't wants US military hardware to be built in the US. The last thing you want is a virus created by a foreign power embedded in your shiny new attack helicopter! Dell, thank you for illustrating the point!
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