Malicious Hardware Hacking May Be the Next Frontier

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 4, 2010 @02:14AM from the i-hide-it-in-my-pocket dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's a given that hackers will target software, and that's enough for many people to worry about. But now there's the possibility that hackers would hide malicious code in the hardware itself. A hardware hack could be an annoyance, by stopping a mobile phone from functioning. Or it could be more dangerous, if it damages the way a critical system operates. Villasenor says there are several types of attacks. Broadly they would fall into two categories: one is when a block stops a chip from functioning, while the other involves shipping data out."

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Re:[Insert scary possibility] by Yvanhoe · 2010-08-04 02:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Now THAT's scary !

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Re:[Insert scary possibility] by elrous0 · 2010-08-04 02:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA!

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