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Reverse Engineering Intellectual Property: Chip Ptychographic X-ray Laminography

| | Hardware Secrets, Hardware Security, Information Security, Intellectual Property, Reverse Engineering
Image Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute - Ptychographic X-ray Laminography via Samuel K. Moore - writing for IEEE Spectrum Magazine - comes this outstanding article published on October 7th, 2019; in which, Mr ...
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Not Google’s Quantum AI....

Quantum Of Tuesday: Google Quantum AI’s Paper, Whereabouts Known

| | Computer Science, hardware, Hardware Secrets, Quantum Computation, Quantum Mathematics
Not Google’s Quantum AI.... via Bianca Bharti - writing for Canada's National Post, comes news of Google, Inc's (Nasdaq: GOOGL) stunning accomplishment in quantum computation. Described in a paper entitled 'Quantum supremacy ...
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Yubikey, The Weaponization Thereof

| | Hardware Secrets, Hardware Security, Information Security
The Weaponization of Yubikey - A Primer..., or, Why (Oh Why) Did I Take The Attractive Golden Key Shaped Device At That Trade Show? via Michael Allen, writing over at the fascinating ...
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Hardware Security, Ramtin Amin's Take

Hardware Security, Ramtin Amin’s Take

| | Hardware Flaws, Hardware Secrets, Hardware Security, Information Security
Friend of the Blog Trey Blalock of Firewall Consultants sent a link in yesterday which amgically trasnprted us to Ramtin Amin's Web Blog yesterday (in actuality, a Hardware Security blog of considerable ...
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NetSpectre, The New Vector

NetSpectre, The New Vector

| | Hardware Flaws, Hardware Secrets, Hardware Security, Information Security, Microcode Flaws
Meanwhile, in Spectre (PDF) news, comes word from Ars Technica's Peter Bright, of a newly discovered attack vector (PDF) (dubbed NetSpectre) using the pernicious speculative-execution in-built microscode from the Minds of Intel ...
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Hardware Hacking 101

Black Hills Information Security, Rick Wisser and Sierra Ward’s ‘Hardware Hacking 101’

| | education, Hardware Flaws, Hardware Secrets, Hardware Security, Information Security
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Fourth Spectre/Meltdown Hole of Doom Discovered

Fourth Spectre/Meltdown Hole of Doom Discovered

| | Hardware Flaws, Hardware Secrets, Hardware Security, Information Security
via Chris Williams, Editor in Chief of The Register, comes this surprising/yet not surprising fourth security flaw that now joins the Spectre/Meltdown Speculative Execution flaw in modern CPUs. Bad news for all ...
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The Grayshift Predicament

The Grayshift Predicament

| | Forensication, forensics, Hardware Flaws, Hardware Secrets, Hardware Security, Information Security, Law, law enforcement
I am sure you have all read the news of Grayshift's issues battling extortionists and their ilk. I have, however, not seen any significant commentary regarding the data theft this SNAFU could ...
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