Wibu-Systems Blog

"Bricking" in software license management translates into the ability to lock down a license if an appropriate or illegal use of the software is detected.

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

The intellectual property gained during the development of an ISV’s flagship software product most likely represents an investment in hundreds and hundreds of man hours. 

If you have decided to integrate a 3rd party licensing solution for your software application, you’ve made the right choice.

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.

When describing software protection dongles in a 2007 article appearing in PC Magazine, John C. Dvorak, a well-respected (but self-described curmudgeon) and award winning columnist said, “The dongle was a mostly failed copy-protection device that came into existence in the 1980s. It was also a point of controversy…”

Thomas Friedman argues in his classic work that modern telecommunications makes global trade and competition a simple fact of modern life.

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

Hackers are out there. So you can't take for granted--now or ever--that it won't happen to you.