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Unmanned Systems No Longer Require Human, or Canine, Participation

Forty-plus years ago, when automatic pilots were first used to perform automatic landings of large aircraft, there was a joke that was circulated among pilots everywhere. Future...

13 years 3 months ago

Embedded Device Security: Information Assurance and Cyber Security

Security is a heavily overloaded term, meaning different things to different people. In the embedded systems world, news on security is often about Stuxnet or similar attacks where...

13 years 3 months ago

Testing for Security

Last summer was a watershed event for security-consciousness in the embedded systems world: Stuxnet , a highly sophisticated worm exploited no fewer than 4 zero day vulnerabilities...

13 years 3 months ago

Strengthening Security for Connected Medical Devices

Three years ago an article in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that computer hackers could gain wireless access to implanted pacemakers and shut them off, or reprogram...

13 years 4 months ago

Highlights and hot topics from the Medical Devices Summit

There were a lot of great takeaways from the Medical Devices Summit that I attended last week in San Diego. Wind River solutions architect Pete MacKay gave an excellent...

13 years 4 months ago

The new front in cyber warfare: embedded systems

At the recent Take Down Conference, a scheduled talk on security vulnerabilities in SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems was cancelled due to direct requests...

13 years 5 months ago

IDEF 2011

Recently, I attended the IDEF 2011 defence trade show in Instanbul as part of the Wind River team exhibiting on the Tektronik (Turkish distributor) stand. Our partner, Curtiss...

13 years 5 months ago

Is Linux Secure?

It’s the wrong question, really. Are my financial and medical records secure? What about all that information stored in the cloud? What about my desktop computer or cell phone...

13 years 6 months ago

Wind River Turns 30: Looking Back and Moving Forward

2011 marks Wind River’s 30th anniversary . The big 3-0…it’s a major landmark moment in anyone’s book. This year, we’ll be taking time to honor this milestone with a retrospective...

13 years 6 months ago

Fun with VxWorks MILS 2.1

It's been awhile since my previous blog, as I have been rather preoccupied with responding to a number of RFPs. However, I’ve managed to find some time to work on some demos for...

13 years 7 months ago