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China accused of sabotaging thousands of servers at major US companies with tiny microchips hidden on motherboards

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An extraordinary report released by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which claims that China has been exploiting the supply-chain, planting a tiny microchip on servers which ended up in the server rooms of almost 30 companies, including the likes of Apple and Amazon.

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Applied DNA Sciences successfully marks mission-critical microchips for the U.S. Department of Defense

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Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. has successfully completed a program to DNA mark microchips for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

Used systematically, DNA marking could prevent counterfeit microchips, which might be defective and possibly dangerous, from entry at any point in the DoD’s supply chain, said Applied DNA Sciences in a news release it issued on June 22.

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