Black Hat: Hacking the firmware, the next frontier

With the onslaught of embedded devices hitting the streets, we see such devices with the operating system, hardware interfaces, and user-facing applications baked into a single blob called firmware. Trick the firmware and you have access to the whole system. Here at Black Hat, there are a lot of people doing just that. Lately, these

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