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Security Agents for Embedded Intrusion Detection
By Syed Kamaran Haider, Dr. Devu Manikantan Shila, and Marten van Dijk
Knowingly or unknowingly, we interact with hundreds of networked-embedded devices in our day-to-day lives such as mobile devices, electronic households, medical equipment, automobiles, media players, and many more. This increased dependence of our lives on the networked-embedded devices, nevertheless, has raised serious security concerns.
 In the past, security of embedded systems was not a major concern as these systems were a stand-alone network that contained only trusted devices with little or no communication to the external world. One could execute an attack only with a direct physical or local access to the internal embedded network or to the device. Today, however, almost every embedded device is connected to other devices or the external world (e.g., the Cloud) for advanced monitoring and management capabilities. On one hand, enabling networking capabilities paves the way for a smarter world that we currently live in, while on the other hand, the same capability raises severe security concerns in embedded devices. Recent attacks on embedded device product portfolios in the Black Hat and Defcon conferences has identified remote exploit vulnerabilities (e.g., an adversary who exploits the remote connectivity of embedded devices to launch attacks such as privacy leakage, malware insertion, and denial of service) as one of the major attack vectors. A handful of research efforts along the lines of traditional security defenses have been proposed to enhance the security posture of these networked devices.
These solutions, however, do not entirely solve the problem and we therefore argue the need for a light weight intrusion-defense capability within the embedded device. Read More
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Quad Bench Power Supply
By Brian Millier
The need for a bevy of equipment for building and testing presents a problem: how to deliver an adequate power supply while keeping workbench clutter to a minimum. Brian decided to tackle this classic engineering conundrum with a small, low-capacity quad bench power supply.
 Millier writes:
You can't do without lots of testing equipment, all of which takes up more bench space. Amongst my test equipment, I have several bench power supplies, which are unfortunately large because I built them with surplus power supply assemblies taken from older, unused equipment. This seemed like a good candidate for miniaturization.
At about the same time, I read a fine article by Robert Lacoste describing a high-power tracking lab power supply ("A Tracking Lab Power Supply," Circuit Cellar 139). Although I liked many of Robert's clever design ideas, most of my recent projects seemed to need only modest amounts of power. Therefore, I decided to design my own low-capacity bench supply that would be compact enough to fit in a small case. In this article, I'll describe that power supply. Read More
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Circuit Cellar #297
April 2015
IoT as a Disruptive Force | FlashForth in the Lab | DIY LCDTV Server | Prototyping with SuperSpeed USB | SuperSpeed for FPGAs | Software Development Predictability | Estimating Software Costs | ESD Protection Tips | Intro to Programmable Logic Controllers | The Future of Embedded Security | And More
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