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Some models of Gigabyte motherboards download firmware updates insecurely

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Firmware is on shaky ground – let's see what it's made of

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Chip Backdoors: Assessing the Threat

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Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable

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A case study of Toyota unintended acceleration and software safety (2014) [pdf]

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Unsafe at Any Speed

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The Die Is Cast: Hardware Security Is Not Assured

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Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks

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Using regmaps to make Linux drivers more generic

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Binary Authorization for Borg

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Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into laptops by hiding it in the BIOS (2015)

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Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787

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A Boeing Code Leak Exposes Security Flaws Deep in a 787's Guts

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Supermicro hardware weaknesses let researchers backdoor an IBM cloud server

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Modchips of the State

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Supermicro boards were so bug ridden, why would hackers ever need implants?

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Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack

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One of Bloomberg’s sources told them Chinese spy chip story “didn’t make sense”

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Backdoor Found in Lenovo RackSwitch and BladeCenter

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HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger

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Debugging mechanism in Intel CPUs allows seizing control via USB port

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Your USB cable, the spy: the NSA’s catalog of surveillance magic (2013)

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US military finds F-35 software is a buggy mess

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Inside the Volkswagen emissions cheating

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Reverse engineering the VW electronic control unit

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Lenovo modifying Windows OS files from BIOS to install Lenovo software

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Toyota's killer firmware: Bad design and its consequences (2013)

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Hacking BIOS chips isn't just the NSA's domain anymore

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Are Your Devices Hardwired for Betrayal?

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CPU Backdoors

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A Case Study of Toyota Unintended Acceleration and Software Safety

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Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs

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NSA's BIOS Backdoor a.k.a. God Mode Malware

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Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken

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High-end CNC machines can't be moved without manufacturers' permission

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"BadBIOS" features explained

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Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps?

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Toyota's firmware: Bad design and its consequences

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Researchers can slip an undetectable trojan into Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUS

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Breakthrough silicon scanning discovers backdoor in military chip

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Bogus story: no Chinese backdoor in military chip

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On CPU backdoors - Trusting hardware

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Confirmed: Intel says HDCP 'master key' crack is real

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Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape

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Driving forward in Android drivers

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