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Incident Response Readiness - Gerard Johansen - PSW #794

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The Power of a Voltage Fault Injection

Hacker Joe Grant explains what a voltage fault injection is. In the video I saw of Joe breaking into a hardware crypto wallet, he devised to look like a commercial device. What it did was control the power supply for the chip and it would wait a particularly number of microseconds before spiking the power supply. It's hard to imagine as a programmer how you write your code so that even when it is frozen part way through execution, there's nothing secret in RAM.

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