Security chip that does shield of layer in pcs hacked

San diego(Ap)Deep inside thousands of computers is a digital fort knox, its own chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential strategic strategic plans.Army computer security pro 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 buy military and trade secrets, and comes as worries about state google's sponsored computer espionage intensify, underscored by recent hacking attacks on bing inc.

The new attack discovered by christopher tarnovsky is hard to pull off, partly because it's going to take physical access to a computer.But laptops and texting get lost and stolen all the time.And the data that the biggest computer criminals would seek likely would be wort ... Read more »