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Study finds firmware plagued by poor encryption and backdoors

2014-08-12 13:27:38| InfoWorld: Top News

The first large-scale analysis of a fundamental type of software known as firmware has revealed poor security practices that could present opportunities for hackers probing the "Internet of things." Firmware is a type of software that manages interactions between higher-level software and the underlying hardware, though it can sometimes be the only software on a device. It's found on all kinds of computer hardware, though the study focused on embedded systems such as printers, routers, and security cameras.

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