Wibu-Systems Blog

The speed in which development teams are releasing new software is making it difficult for the security operations team to keep up.

Embedded software engineers of the future will have a very different skillset from their predecessors - Where does the software security skillset fit?

Only 3% of the executives surveyed expressed that they were not challenged by the adoption of  new technologies inherent with the IoT.

Since the IP of today’s of most medical equipment is encapsulated in embedded software, the industry is ripe for attack.

Unlike the often used obfuscation approach, Blurry Box cryptography offers software protection that is completely based on publicly available methods.

To demonstrate the validity and strength of Blurry Box, its novel encryption mechanism, Wibu-Systems has launched a global hackers' contest.

Under the cloud of increasing cybersecurity threats, it is clear that a security by design approach is a necessity for any embedded system.

“The system should not require secrecy and it must not be a problem if it falls into enemy hands.”

The more that is written about the Internet of Things and its myriad of potential game changing applications, it seems that the terms “IIoT” and “disruption” become more closely aligned. 

It was difficult to avoid the barrage of headlines coming out of the last week’s annual RSA Conference, the purported largest annual gathering of security professionals in the world.

This past summer, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) published an interesting document entitled, Architect’s Guide: IoT Security.

The SD Association recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of the microSD™ Card.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) recently released the first version of a document entitled "Industrial Internet Reference Architecture Technical Report".

Aside from the widespread attention and hype surrounding the prolific growth expectations of the Internet of Things (IoT), industry focus has been on potential (IoT) device vulnerabilities and cybersecurity.

A recent report released by the Economist Intelligence Unit entitled Long-term Macroeconomic Forecasts: Key trends to 2050 highlighted some of the emerging economic issues expected to shape global business in the coming decades.

Software for embedded systems is based more and more on open system platforms – Linux Embedded, VxWorks, Windows Embedded, QNX and many others.

Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged that he once feared that terrorists could use the electrical device that had been implanted near his heart to kill him and had his doctor disable its wireless function.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission recently released an in-depth report entitled, The Internet of Things: Privacy & Security in a Connected World, which included a long list of considerations and recommendations on how manufacturers should secure IoT devices.

Software for embedded systems is based more and more on open system platforms, such as Linux Embedded, VxWorks, Windows Embedded, QNX and many others.

By now, many of you have heard about the "BadUSB" exploit, where two security researchers at Security Research Labs demonstrated how they could perpetrate an attack on USB devices.

In their book, Embedded Systems Security, David and Michael Kleidermacher point out some all-to-real scenarios about the consequences of malicious threats to embedded systems.

The big news for crypto-wonks this week is that an international group of researchers has cracked a portion of RSA encryption.

There are plenty of reasons to use a software protection dongle even when you're running an embedded system.