Hacker-Ready Computer Chips

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A pair of security researchers in the U.K. have released a [PDF] documenting what they describe as the first real world detection of a backdoor in a microchip an opening that could allow a malicious actor to monitor or change the information on the chip. The researchers, Sergei Skorobogatov of the University of Cambridge and Christopher Woods of Quo Vadis Labs, concluded that the vulnerability made it possible to reprogram the contents of supposedly secure memory and obtain information regarding the internal logic of the chip. ....