Malicious Hardware Hacking May Be the Next Frontier

An anonymous reader writes "It's a given that hackers will target software, and that's enough for many people to worry about. But now there's the possibility that hackers would hide malicious code in the hardware itself. A hardware hack could be an annoyance, by stopping a mobile phone from functioning. Or it could be more dangerous, if it damages the way a critical system operates. Villasenor says there are several types of attacks. Broadly they would fall into two categories: one is when a block stops a chip from functioning, while the other involves shipping data out."

Re:We Certainly May!

[natehoy]

Then again, July not.

Re:Uhm?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think somebody accidentally the headline.

For some reason...

[The MAZZTer]

...this reminds me of the whole "Hackers can make your computer explode!" scare that went around in the early PC era...

Re:lolwut?

[0racle]

Someone accidentally the whole thing.

Article Headline Hackers May the Final Frontier

[noidentity]

Someone hacked the article title, it seems. That's a bigger threat right there.

Ahem...

[Anonymous Coward]

May. The Next Frontier. These are the failures of the Slashdot Editors. Their ongoing mission: To explore strange new URLs, to seek out new memes and new trending topics. To boldly fail where no man has failed before!

James May?

[Anonymous Coward]

May [topgear.com] has modified cars as part of the show, but does that qualify as "hardware hacking"? Even then, so has Clarkson and Hammond.

Hackors

[kaoshin]

I think it is possible that could hide malicious code in the. It could even potentially words from sentences. In Soviet Russia you.

Re:lolwut?

[Hijacked Public]

It may finally answer who was phone though. Hackers was phone.

Re:Uhm?

[Sloppy]

In Soviet Russia, you!

Re:Why the poor choice of word?

[Mister Whirly]

Still fighting that uphill battle? See, nobody knows or cares about the proper use of the word "hacker" except a small percentage of the geek population. And that samll percentage is NEVER going to be able to convince the other 99.5% of the population what the true meaning is. The meaning has been changed, and it happened in the 1980s. Just accept it.

Oh, and also -
A desktop tower is also now called the "CPU" or "hard drive"
RAM capacity and hard drive storage capacity can now be used interchangeably
Internet Explorer and Firefox applications are now called "the internets"
Transferring any data over any medium is called "downloading"
Any mp3 player, regardless of the brand, is called an "iPod"


Please make a note of this for future reference.