{"id":6628,"date":"2008-03-10T17:31:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T17:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/microprocessors-the-weakest-security-link.html"},"modified":"2008-03-10T17:31:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T17:31:01","slug":"microprocessors-the-weakest-security-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/microprocessors-the-weakest-security-link.html","title":{"rendered":"Microprocessors: The Weakest Security Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although there seem to be limitless ways to attack computers, a vulnerability you might not have ever seen coming takes place in the microprocessors. As chips have become more powerful than , it is now possible for a person in a&nbsp; chip fab or another in the supply chain to plant counterfeit chips in place of real ones.<\/p>\n<p>The reason to switch out a chip has to do with taking control of a processor at a later date for a variety of nefarious purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The complexity of today&#8217;s chips is an issue as it has become impossible to check them for all potential responses before they are shipped.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. security agencies are very concerned but many wonder why anyone would bother to target chips when so many easier ways seem to exists to hack into today&#8217;s computer systems.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/industry\/4253628.html\">Popular Mechanics<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although there seem to be limitless ways to attack computers, a vulnerability you might not have ever seen coming takes place in the microprocessors. As chips have become more powerful than , it is now possible for a person in a&nbsp; chip fab or another in the supply chain to plant counterfeit chips in place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,188,156,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}