Protecting private data: with law or with technology?
There is an ongoing debate on the need for new regulations that protect individuals’ personal data. Regulation is said to be required to protect the personal data of citizens, consumers, patients,...
View ArticleCloning contactless credit cards
All major credit card brands adopted EMV Contactless Specifications for Payment Systems based on the ISO/IEC 14443 standard for proximity integrated circuit cards. Contactless cards can be more...
View ArticleBluetooth: With Low Energy comes Low Security
When the Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0 was adopted in 2010, Bluetooth low energy was merged into it. Key features of Bluetooth low energy wireless technology include: Ultra-low peak, average...
View ArticleLimits of white lists
One way to avoid malware on your system is to make a white list of known-good applications and disallow installation and execution of everything else. This sounds like a bullet-proof solution, but the...
View ArticleWeird machines
Roughly speaking there are two types of computer programs: the programs represented by CPU instructions (native code) and the programs executed (interpreted) by other programs (class files executed by...
View ArticleIBC 2013
Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre September 13 – 17 2013 For more information and to schedule a meeting Please contact events-dx@discretix.com Click here for the conference site:...
View ArticleYet another RNG SNAFU
Last month we wrote: If you are watching the security engineering field long enough, you can easily recall a dozen more cases, where an RNG shortcoming made a supposedly secure system a complete...
View ArticleDigital Media and DRM Summit
August 20th, 2013 For more information and to schedule a meeting Please contact events-dx@discretix.com Click here for the conference site: http://www.marlin-community.com/news-events
View ArticleHard disk as a computer
Leaving aside the platters and mechanics, a hard disk contains megabytes of RAM and several processor cores that execute programs stored on internal flash. Since the programs can be changed from the...
View ArticleGlobalPlatform Trusted Execution Environment Conference
Hyatt Regency Santa Clara Hotel & Conference Center October 31st 2013 To schedule a meeting please contact events-dx@discretix.com Click here for the conference site:...
View ArticleComputex Taipei 2013
Taipei International Convention Center (TICC). Taipei June 4 – 8, 2013 For more information and to schedule a meeting. Please contact events-dx@discretix.com
View ArticleMediaTek Selects Discretix as Content Protection Provider for its Android...
TrustZone-based Microsoft® PlayReady® and HDCP2.x for Miracast®, fully compatible with premium HD video services worldwide HSINCHU, TAIWAN AND NETANYA, ISRAEL – July 31st, 2013 – MediaTek Inc., and...
View ArticleSW Engineer – SW tools development & QA group – Israel
Overview Discretix is looking for a Software engineer to join one of its R&D teams developing content protection product for mobile environments. This position requires excellent development skills...
View ArticleSIM malware
Due to the third law of security (“cryptography is typically bypassed, not penetrated”), every case, where a security system was broken due to a cryptographic weakness, is a rarity that calls for...
View Article“Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random”
Compared to the Seminumerical algorithms (the quote in the title is from that volume of The Art of Computer Programming), the random numbers are even more important in the security engineering. The...
View ArticleSW Engineer, Israel
Overview Discretix is looking for a Software engineer to join one of its R&D teams developing content protection product for mobile environments. This position requires excellent development skills...
View ArticleSW Team Leader, Israel
Overview Discretix is looking for a Software Team Leader to join the R&D department and lead a team developing content protection products for the mobile environments (mobile phones, tablets). This...
View ArticleProduct Manager, Israel
Job Description As Product Manager for Content Protection products in Discretix, you will be responsible for device-side content protection products sold to Samsung, HTC, Huawei and other tier1 mobile...
View ArticleSales Engineer, North America
Discretix Overview Discretix’ security solutions are deployed in a wide range of consumer electronics devices enabling services and applications, while protecting the device and its contents....
View ArticleSW Engineer, Israel
Discretix is looking for a Software engineer to join one of its R&D teams developing content protection product for mobile environments. This position requires excellent development skills with...
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