In this week’s podcast: researcher Kevin Fu of University of Michigan discusses his work on attacks that use physics to manipulate connected devices. Also: Mark Loveless of DUO discusses his research into how poor implementation of wireless protocols make personal security trackers a privacy risk. And have we seen peak ransomware? Adam Kujawa of the firm Malwarebytes joins us to talk about the findings of that company’s State of Malware Report.  To date, billions of dollars have been invested in technology to address the risks posed by software security holes. But what about flaws in the very components that make up modern, connected devices? The materials that make up transistors, circuit boards, motion sensors and other devices have physical properties that make them vulnerable to analog attacks. It’s the analog, stupid Together with Wenyuan Xu of  Zhejiang University our first guest, Kevin Fu, a professor at The University of Michigan is […]

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