Cybersecurity

S-Pankki on-line banking has problems

Finnish bank hacking disaster: 150 data breaches, 53 frauds, loot of millions, a group of friends involved, bug has been on-line for months, allowed fraudent authentication to third party services (like medical records, taxes, etc.) On Tuesday, S-Pankki (S-bank) announced a vulnerability that occurred in the spring and summer when identifying with online banking credentials.

Embedded Conference Finland 2022

I visited Embedded Conference Finland 2022 this week few days ago. Here are some picks from the cyber security info shown at conference. Embedded cyber security is a horizontal legal requirement in EU by end of 2024 Antti Tolvanen, Sales Director, Etteplan Post-quantum cryptography: The current status and future consequences Kimmo Järvinen, CTO, Xiphera Preparing

PC hardware vulnerabilities of summer 2022

There has been several BWAIN PC hardware vulnerabilities published this summer. BWAIN is a short name for a Bug With An Impressive Name. BWAIN is an accolade that we hand out when a new cybersecurity flaw not only turns out to be interesting and important, but also turns up with its own logo, domain name

Air gapped systems leak secrets in new ways

Some critical systems aren’t exposed to the public internet and sit, apparently safely, in an isolated environment, air gapped from the rest of the world by a lack of internet connectivity. The integrity of the air gap is only maintained when the means of data transport in and out of the environment are equally subject

HDMI firewall

Any device sporting a chip and some form of communications protocol can be hacked – that’s almost as strong a law as those governing gravity. Besides audio and video data, there are a number of parallel protocols in HDMI that transmit more information than we’d expect. There is I2C configuration data, HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content