By Darren Pauli, 11 Jun 2014

 

Summary/

Researchers have found 207,000 publicly-accessible Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) can be hacked with a "handful" of basic command and config flaws, despite previous warnings about the problem.

They exposed devices were found during a global trawl of UDP 623 that netted 230,000 public BMCs, half of which ran holey 13-year-old firmware that exposed operating systems to attack.

 The Register/ Full Read Here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/11/are_you_deaf_207_thousand_outofband_boxes_still_hackable/