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Tiny Changes in Energy Use Could Mean Your Computer Is Under Attack - by David Talbot
Detecting computer viruses or other malware is traditionally a matter of scanning a computer for signatures of known threats—leading to a perennial game of catch-up that includes an initial period when a new attack goes undetected (see “The Antivirus Era is Over”). Deeper threats—such as hardware that has been modified to add back doors for spying—can’t be detected at all by antivirus products.
Now a Virginia Tech startup, Power Fingerprinting, based in Blacksburg, Virginia, says it has an entirely new method: detecting malicious activity by first taking a detailed fingerprint of a processor’s power consumption and monitoring for changes that indirectly reveal malicious activity, regardless of the source or novelty of that nefarious code. Read more...
Detecting computer viruses or other malware is traditionally a matter of scanning a computer for signatures of known threats—leading to a perennial game of catch-up that includes an initial period when a new attack goes undetected (see “The Antivirus Era is Over”). Deeper threats—such as hardware that has been modified to add back doors for spying—can’t be detected at all by antivirus products.
Now a Virginia Tech startup, Power Fingerprinting, based in Blacksburg, Virginia, says it has an entirely new method: detecting malicious activity by first taking a detailed fingerprint of a processor’s power consumption and monitoring for changes that indirectly reveal malicious activity, regardless of the source or novelty of that nefarious code. Read more...
