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Are Computer Chips the New Security Threat?

The article discusses potential security threats associated with computer chips. Topics include a paper by Todd Austin and Matthew Hicks presented to the IEEE Symposium on Privacy and Security documenting their success at building a backdoor into a computer chip, researchers and security experts' co...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 18 - 21
Autor principal: Greengard, Samuel
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2017
Materias:
Computer security
Microprocessors
Integrated circuits
Computer security vulnerabilities
Hardware Trojans (Computers)
Security systems
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Sumario:The article discusses potential security threats associated with computer chips. Topics include a paper by Todd Austin and Matthew Hicks presented to the IEEE Symposium on Privacy and Security documenting their success at building a backdoor into a computer chip, researchers and security experts' concerns regarding Trojan horses or other types of hardware attacks, and Austin and Hicks' use of a single engineered component in the overall structure of the chip to create the backdoor.