Cybersecurity

IoT Summit slides from Silicon Labs

Silicon Labs presentation at Arrow IoT summit. The presenter Lars Lydersen  had hacked quantun cryptopcraphy in 2010, which lead to downturn of that industry sector. He wants that that IoT manufacturers are serious on security or otherwise bad hacks to those systems can damage the size of the business of the whole IoT sector.  

RSA SecurID older model teardown

The RSA SecurID authentication mechanism consists of a “token” — either hardware (e.g. a USB dongle) or software (a soft token) — which is assigned to a computer user and which generates an authentication code at fixed intervals (usually 60 seconds) using a built-in clock and the card’s factory-encoded random key (known as the “seed”).

RSA SecurID teardown

RSA SecurID is a  two-factor authentication device. It gives out number that change depending on the time, and correct number is needed to log-in to sensitive systems (=one-time password functionality).  RSA SecurID 700 is a small key fob that connects easily to any key ring. Here is  front panel of RSA SecurID 700. There is