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Article: Ghosts in the Machine: Attacks May Come From Inside Computers.(News)
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- Securities Industry News
- Article date:
- August 17, 2009
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Byline: Shane Kite
The next wave of hacking into computers and stealing data will not be requests or code coming from remote points across the Web, security experts are warning.
Instead, the most sophisticated Trojan Horses appearing on Wall Street financial systems may be threaded into the silicon of integrated circuits by design, their malicious instructions baked right into the tiny physical aspects and intricate mapping of the chip itself, according to scientists and academics working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the White House and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center in Dulles, Va.
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