Hardware Security, the New Frontier? standard
RSA Conference is right around the corner, and I’m excited to actually be able to see some talks this year. I’m on a panel with Dave Navetta and Serge Jorgensen on Tuesday covering the Dark Side of a Payment Card Breach (LAW-107, Room 131, 2:40pm). I am sure if you are there, we will bump into each other somewhere along the way! One of the topics that I want to explore with other security folks while I am there is a shift to hardware-focused exploits whereby you bypass software and focus on firmware to control machines. It’s not a new concept and has been seen in both theoretical and actual attacks on systems. But as software vulnerabilities are closed, the ...
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