Security expert cracks pc shield of layer chip

San fran deep inside millions of computers is a digital fort knox, picture chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential strategic strategic plans.Army computer security pc professional has devised a way to break those locks.

The attack can force heavily secured computers to spill documents that likely were presumed harmless.This discovery shows one way that spies and other richly financed attackers can purchase military and trade secrets, and comes as worries about state subsidized computer espionage intensify, underscored by recent hacking attacks on the internet inc.

The new attack discovered by christopher tarnovsky is tough to pull off, partly because it takes physical access to a computer.But laptops and mobile phones get lost and stolen all the time.And the data that the biggest computer criminals would seek likely would be worth the ... Read more »