{"id":97439,"date":"2019-10-15T04:02:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T11:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/spy-chip-planting-said-to-be-easy-to-do-and-tough-to-spot"},"modified":"2019-10-15T04:02:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T11:02:31","slug":"spy-chip-planting-said-to-be-easy-to-do-and-tough-to-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/spy-chip-planting-said-to-be-easy-to-do-and-tough-to-spot","title":{"rendered":"Spy chip planting said to be easy to do and tough to spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spy-chip-planting-said-to-be-easy-to-do-and-tough-to-spot2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much too easy: Planting a two-dollar spy chip on hardware with a technique that can be pulled off on a less than $200 budget? Yet that was the work of a proof in concept investigation by a security researcher and tech-watching sites were discussing the story on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out you can slip a spy chip into any hardware for no more than $198 to $200, said reports. The spotlight was on <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/security\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">security<\/a> researcher Monta Elkins, Hacker-in-Chief, FoxGuard Solutions. He has a proof-of-concept version of a hardware implant.<\/p>\n<p>John Dunn, <i>Naked Security<\/i>, talked about the chip as bad news for security were it to happen. \u201cIn fact, this has already <a href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2019\/10\/14\/soldering-spy-chips-inside-firewalls-is-now-a-cheap-hack-shows-researcher\/\">happened<\/a> as part of a project by researcher Monta Elkins, designed to prove that this sort of high-end hardware hack is no longer the preserve of nation-states.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much too easy: Planting a two-dollar spy chip on hardware with a technique that can be pulled off on a less than $200 budget? Yet that was the work of a proof in concept investigation by a security researcher and tech-watching sites were discussing the story on Monday. Turns out you can slip a spy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97439","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}