Uk Cyber Safety Way Backs Apple, Amazon China Hack Denials

From Reuters:

Britain's national cyber safety means said on Fri it had no argue to incertitude the assessments made past times Apple Inc as well as Amazon.com Inc challenging a Bloomberg study that their systems contained malicious calculator chips inserted past times Chinese tidings services.

Bloomberg Businessweek on Th cited 17 unnamed tidings as well as fellowship sources equally proverb that Chinese spies had placed calculator chips within equipment used past times simply about xxx companies, too equally multiple U.S. regime agencies, which would rank Beijing hush-hush access to internal networks.

"We are aware of the media reports but at this phase bring no argue to incertitude the detailed assessments made past times AWS as well as Apple," said the National Cyber Security Centre, a unit of measurement of Britain's eavesdropping agency, GCHQ. AWS refers to Amazon Web Services, the company's cloud-computing unit.

"The NCSC engages confidentially alongside safety researchers as well as urges anybody alongside credible tidings most these reports to contact us,” it said.

Apple contested the Bloomberg study on Thursday, proverb inward a contestation that its ain internal investigations flora no testify to back upward the story's claims as well as that neither the company, nor its contacts inward police trace enforcement, were aware of whatever investigation past times the FBI into the matter.

Apple's lately retired full general counsel, Bruce Sewell, told Reuters he called the FBI's then-general counsel James Baker end twelvemonth later on existence told past times Bloomberg of an opened upward investigation into Super Micro Computer Inc , a hardware maker whose products Bloomberg said were implanted alongside malicious Chinese chips....MORE