"A Diabolical Way of Hacking a Chip With a Wave of Your Hand"

Founder of Red Balloon Security, Ang Cui, and research scientist, Rick Housley, have discovered a new way in which a processor could be hacked, with the use of self-built electromagnetic pulsing equipment to raise faults within targeted hardware. This attack could be performed with a simple wave of a hand over the targeted device, while holding an electronic pulse generating device at an appropriate proximity. This article further discusses the development of this type of attack, researchers’ previous experiments with fault injection attacks, and how electromagnetic fault injection hacking will call for more security implementations. 

Wired reports "A Diabolical Way of Hacking a Chip With a Wave of Your Hand"