{"id":18945,"date":"2020-04-27T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=18945"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:00","slug":"probing-techs-soft-underbelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/27\/probing-techs-soft-underbelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Probing tech\u2019s soft underbelly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Dr. Kevin Fu.\" class=\"wp-image-14253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin-665x443.jpg 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>(www.eecs.umich.edu)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On any given day in <strong>Kevin Fu<\/strong>\u2019s laboratory at the College of Engineering research investigators might use an antenna to fool the lab\u2019s sensor into giving a false temperature readings or a laser light beam to inject false voice commands in a voice-controlled assistant from a distance of 300 feet.<a href=\"https:\/\/michigantoday.umich.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2020\/04\/IMG_2997-scaled.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike many cybersecurity troubleshooters, Fu is not looking for software bugs, malware, or ransomware that hackers can use to access electronic devices and automated systems. Rather, he is probing the soft underbelly of technology by burrowing down into the actual brain of the computer itself to figure out how to eliminate vulnerabilities by design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a little scary to know that all these electronic products have been put on the market before we figured out the basic science and engineering for securing the sensors inside them,\u201d says Fu, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/michigantoday.umich.edu\/2020\/04\/23\/probing-techs-soft-underbelly\/\">Read more about Kevin Fu&#8217;s work in Michigan Today<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On any given day in Kevin Fu\u2019s laboratory at the College of Engineering research investigators might use an antenna to fool the lab\u2019s sensor into giving a false temperature readings or a laser light beam to inject false voice commands in a voice-controlled assistant from a distance of 300 feet. Unlike many cybersecurity troubleshooters, Fu is not looking\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/27\/probing-techs-soft-underbelly\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,27],"tags":[290,488,122,270,130],"class_list":["post-18945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-safe-computing","tag-coe","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hacking","tag-hardware","tag-research"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin.jpg",1500,1000,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin-700x467.jpg",600,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin.jpg",1500,1000,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin.jpg",1500,1000,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin-665x443.jpg",665,443,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/fu-kevin.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"On any given day in Kevin Fu\u2019s laboratory at the College of Engineering research investigators might use an antenna to fool the lab\u2019s sensor into giving a false temperature readings or a laser light beam to inject false voice commands in a voice-controlled assistant from a distance of 300 feet. 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