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Supergeek pulls off 'near impossible' crypto chip hack
02 Jun 2010 | News Items
Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former US Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks. …
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The Hunt for the Kill Switch
02 Jun 2010 | News Items
Are chip makers building electronic trapdoors in key military hardware? The Pentagon is making its biggest effort yet to find out.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/the-hunt-for-the-kill-switch
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Old Trick Threatens the Newest Weapons
02 Jun 2010 | News Items
Despite a six-year effort to build trusted computer chips for military systems, the Pentagon now manufactures in secure facilities run by American companies only about 2 percent of the more than $3.5 billion of integrated circuits bought annually for use in military gear. …
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Video: Demonstration of Hardware Trojans
04 Aug 2010 | News Items | Contributor(s): Sagar D. Patel
A Video our Research Group Made for DEFCON conference...CVORG at the University of Delaware.
Demonstration of Hardware Trojans from Ryan Hoover on Vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/1437702
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US e-voting system cracked in less than 48 hours
07 Mar 2012 | News Items | Contributor(s): Hassan Salmani
Researchers at the University of Michigan have reported that it took them only a short time to break through the security functions of a pilot project for online voting in Washington, D.C. "Within 48 hours of the system going live, we had gained near complete control of the election server", the …
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Rice WARP
11 Jul 2010 | News Items | Contributor(s): Jason Thibodeau
Rice University's WARP is a scalable and extensible programmable wireless platform, built from the ground up, to prototype advanced wireless networks.
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RSA: Your Phone Is Leaking
06 Mar 2012 | News Items | Contributor(s): Hassan Salmani
Cryptography Research supplies crypto hardware and knowhow to manufacturers across the industry. Paul Kocher President and Chief Scientist, believes that hardware, not software, is the best solution for many security problems. At the 2012 RSA Conference I sat down with Kocher for a discussion of …
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What Are Trust Benchmarks?
12 Jul 2010 | News Items | Contributor(s): xuehui zhang, Hassan Salmani
What Are Trust Benchmarks?
Motivation IP/IC trust area has gained significant attention in the past few years. Various circuits are used by research groups and labs. Trojan insertion in an ad hoc fashion, thereby creating confusion among researchers on what methodology may be effective in detecting …
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HOST 2010: A Summary
12 Jul 2010 | News Items | Contributor(s): Jason Thibodeau
The 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust was held on June 13-14 in conjunction with the Design Automation Conference in Anaheim, CA. In its third year since inception, the workshop was upgraded to symposium status this year due to its high quality level of …
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SMARTPHONE SECURITY
15 Mar 2012 | News Items | Contributor(s): Hassan Salmani
The proliferation of smartphones within the military, government and civilian work forces has transformed the way actions get done by enabling access to a plethora of data on a single mobile device. But with that convenience has come a security threat that is not well understood by most users, …
