Security / Identification News

A quick look at the IoT developments from this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The British government recently released a "Code of Practice" for IoT device developers to responsibly design secure devices. Is this list of best practices a precursor to regulation? Should it...

The importance of security in embedded systems is growing, making wolfSSL's Todd Ouska’s line of work a hot topic. AAC’s Chantelle Dubois had a chance to speak with him about his career and...

BrainChip has announced the Akida Neuromorphic System-on-Chip (NSoC), the first production-volume artificial intelligence accelerator utilizing Spiking Neural Networks (SNN)....

Security protocols, like communication protocols, are currently in competition to set industry-wide standards. What is the TLS 1.3 protocol? How does this security protocol differ from SSL?...

Cryptocurrencies have been in and out of the news for a while now. Because "mining" is the only source of new cryptocurrency units, complex ASIC devices such as the BM1387 have been created to...

The space race of the cold war saw the US and Russia develop a wide range of aerospace technologies. But a new race is about to begin, mostly among corporations, and the winner will unlock the...

STMicroelectronics announced in June that it is the world's first eSIM manufacturer accredited by the GSMA to personalize eSIMs for mobile and connected IoT devices. What is an eSIM? How could...

Here's a look at recent technologies released by PoLTE and decaWave, which provide indoor location services, and Telit, which provides cellular modules with a global reach....

WolfSSL recently released the wolfMQTT client library, a security add-on that provides SSL/TLS encryption for the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol....

Here’s a look at some of the ways NFC is already being used on your smartphone.

A team from the Microsoft Research New Experiences and Technologies (NExT) Operating Systems Group has been working on methods to introduce high level security in IoT microcontrollers, coming...

Encryption takes energy. MIT's public-key encryption chip reportedly reduces encryption energy consumption by 99.75%.

A cybersecurity research group in Israel has recently published a paper in which they describe the MOSQUITO attack—an attack that can reverse speakers and microphones in air-gapped computers,...

NXP Semiconductors, a Dutch manufacturer of semiconductor chips and SoCs, has recently announced a few new collaborations with Microsoft that will enhance Industrial IoT applications with...

Maxim Integrated recently announced the DS28E36 IC, which is a secure authenticator that uses Maxim's DeepCover embedded security solutions....

In this teardown, we unlock an electronic touchpad keyless entry door lock system to learn some of its secrets.

Here's a look at the unusual way Meltdown and Spectre were revealed to the public and what we can expect going forward.

Even if you are not interested in cryptocurrencies or blockchain technology, the hardware and systems available to keep these things safe are still interesting and relevant for data security...