In a paper that has been published in draft form online and seen by the Guardian, researchers Sergei Skorobogatov of Cambridge University and Chris Woods of Quo Vadis Labs say that they have discovered a method that a hacker can use to connect to the internals of a chip made by Actel, a US manufacturer.
“An attacker can disable all the security on the chip, reprogram cryptographic and access keys … or permanently damage the device,” they noted.
To the research draft :
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/Silicon_scan_draft.pdf
To the article :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/29/cyber-attack-concerns-boeing-chip?newsfeed=true
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