Christof Paar has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council. The IT security expert will use the 2.5 million euros funding for closing dangerous backdoors that are a major threat ...

Kenneth Hall April 8, 2008 Comment Now! Scientists from Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) in Germany have revealed a major flaw in vehicle keyless entry systems by demonstrating a new device that can ...

Professional safecrackers use a stethoscope to find the correct combination by listening to the clicks of the lock. Researchers have now demonstrated how to bypass the security mechanisms of a widely ...

Professional safecrackers use a stethoscope to find the correct combination by listening to the clicks of the lock. Researchers at the Ruhr-University Bochum have now demonstrated how to bypass the ...

A team of security researchers from the U.S. and Europe has released a paper showing how integrated circuits used in computers, military equipment and other critical systems can be maliciously ...

There’s bad news in the paper, The Unpatchable Silicon: A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs by Maik Ender and Amir Moradi, Horst Goertz Institute for IT Security, Ruhr ...