Researcher Finds Method to Insert Malicious Firmware Into Currency Validator

If espionage is the world’s second-oldest profession, counterfeiting may be in the running to be third on that list. People have been trying to forge currency for just about as long as currency has been circulating, and anti-counterfeiting methods have tried to keep pace with the state of the art...

Anonymous Targets the FTC

Earlier this year the Anonymous hacking collective took credit for knocking offline a couple of sites belonging to the Federal Trade Commission. They claimed that the attack was in retaliation for the U.S. government’s support of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Anonymous...

Benjamin Jun talks anti-counterfeiting

Benjamin Jun of Cryptography Research talks about anti-counterfeiting measures in embedded technology at RSA 2009. In this segment Jun talks about the dangers of criminal hackers abusing diabetes monitors...