After PS3 hack Xbox 360’s got hacked

Christopher Tarnovsky, a researcher at Flylogic Engineering made it possible to hack TPM which was considered as most secure. TPM – Trusted Platform Module chips which are considered as hardware based industry standard securing chip designed by Trusted Computing Group is being used my many vendors for storing encryption keys and implementing security and is used by Microsoft’s BitLocker.

It was considered as virtually impossible for hackers to hack this chip internals and reach the secured data it has.

The hack has not been made public but has surely opened debate on how secure these devices are.

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