A hardware fault injection attack results in the first Xbox One boot ROM-level compromise after 12 years.

One can only imagine the wonders held within the crypto labs of organizations like the CIA or NSA. Therein must be machines of such sophistication that no electronic device could resist their attempts ...

Trezor and the chip maker Tropic Square have disclosed a hardware vulnerability in the TROPIC01 secure element chip used in ...

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A new technical paper titled “CRAFT: Characterizing and Root-Causing Fault Injection Threats at Pre-Silicon” was published by researchers at North Carolina State University. “Fault injection attacks ...

Chipmakers continue to be perplexed over a growing list of CPU vulnerabilities; meanwhile, attackers are sharpening their skills to deploy FIAs, otherwise known as hardware Trojan horses. Historically ...

As a general concept, fault injection is a technique that studies how a system reacts to unusual or unexpected external forces. The idea is that, if you can trigger a glitch at the precise moment, you ...

Brien walks through the process of creating an IAM role for the AWS Fault Injection Simulator in order to find out what happens when an EC2 spot instance is interrupted. I recently wrote a blog post ...