By John D. Villasenor – The combination of continued chip technology advances and an unprecedented level of globalization in the semiconductor industry has spurred enormous changes in the way chips are designed, manufactured, and used. These changes bring many benefits to the consumer including lower prices and faster time to market for products and services, but they have also created a widening set of opportunities for would-be attackers to insert malicious circuits during the chip design process that could be used to launch a hardware attack.
Despite the potentially devastating impact that a large-scale hardware attack could have on commerce, defense, and government function, the need to proactively address hardware security remains widely underappreciated. more> http://tinyurl.com/3k2lw84
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