Security News > 2016 > October > Hardware Bit-Flipping Attacks in Practice (Schneier on Security)
2016-10-27 19:23
A year and a half ago, I wrote about hardware bit-flipping attacks, which were then largely theoretical. Now, they can be used to root Android phones: The breakthrough has the potential to make millions of Android phones vulnerable, at least until a security fix is available, to a new form of attack that seizes control of core parts of the...
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