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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 280 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: chip amp pin skewered paper clip attack comments Discuss  
Tapping upAcademic from Cambridge University have documented possible shortcomings of Chip and PIN machines used to authenticate debit and credit card transactions.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 230 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn researchers uncover undetectable chip hack comments Discuss  
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=11993By Robert McMillanIDG News Service16 April 2008For years, hackers have focused on finding bugs in computer software that give them unauthorised access to computer systems, but now there's another way to break in: hack the microprocessor.Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated how they altered a computer chip to grant attackers back-door access to a computer. It would take a lot of work to make this attack succee read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 114 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: intel papers remote attack chip flaws demo comments Discuss  
Researcher's guns spikedIntel has fixed a pair of flaws in its chips ahead of a planned demonstration of remote attacks on them by security researcher Kris Kaspersky.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 64 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: researchers develop bugblocking chip monitor comments Discuss  
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed technology that can fence off microprocessor bugs and keep them from seizing up a PC. read more »
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