You are concerned about spam and viruses? You ain’t seen nothing yet, believe researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC): A next phase of more sophisticated viruses may not only exist in software, but may be deeply embedded in hardware, or what the scientists describe as ““malicious circuits”.
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Considering how many online services we end up subscribing to, it’s not surprising that we sometimes need a few attempts to get our passwords right. After failing a couple of times, you often see a little box popping up with a random jumble of skewed letters on a hazy background, which you have to decipher. […]

For years, hackers have focused on finding bugs in computer software that give them unauthorized access to computer systems, but now there’s another way to break in: Hack the microprocessor.
On Tuesday, 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 […]