I don’t like to boast, but I was around to see the dawn of the microprocessor (cue Richard Strauss’s tone poem (orchestral music) Also Sprach Zarathustra (“Thus Spake Zarathustra”). As an aside, and as I made mention in my blog We’re One Step Closer to Judgment Day this awe-inspiring piece (whose fanfare plays…
How do you apply attacks to complete systems, and how do you test systems you might use in your day-to-day life? In this article, Colin discusses how he confirmed that an access control system he was considering to use doesn’t have a timing attack present
Early microprocessors straddled two major computing epochs. During the first epoch, stretching from the late 1960s through the 1970s, computer system engineers designed and implemented minicomputer processor architectures and processor boards using TTL parts, bipolar PROMs, stone knives, and bearskins. Each minicomputer maker – including Digital Equipment Corp (DEC), Data General (DG), Prime, Computer Automation,…