{"id":136171,"date":"2022-02-28T06:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/new-chip-can-prevent-hackers-from-extracting-hidden-information-from-smart-devices"},"modified":"2022-02-28T06:22:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T14:22:39","slug":"new-chip-can-prevent-hackers-from-extracting-hidden-information-from-smart-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/new-chip-can-prevent-hackers-from-extracting-hidden-information-from-smart-devices","title":{"rendered":"New Chip Can Prevent Hackers From Extracting Hidden Information From Smart Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-chip-can-prevent-hackers-from-extracting-hidden-information-from-smart-devices3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Engineers build a lower-energy chip that can prevent hackers from extracting hidden information from a smart device.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A heart attack patient, recently discharged from the hospital, is using a smartwatch to help monitor his electrocardiogram signals. The smartwatch may seem secure, but the neural network processing that health information is using private data that could still be stolen by a malicious agent through a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2009\/cryptography\">side-channel attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A side-channel attack seeks to gather secret information by indirectly exploiting a system or its hardware. In one type of side-channel attack, a savvy hacker could monitor fluctuations in the device\u2019s power consumption while the neural network is operating to extract protected information that \u201cleaks\u201d out of the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers build a lower-energy chip that can prevent hackers from extracting hidden information from a smart device. A heart attack patient, recently discharged from the hospital, is using a smartwatch to help monitor his electrocardiogram signals. The smartwatch may seem secure, but the neural network processing that health information is using private data that could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}