Embedded Devices and RFID Hacking

The embedded systems market has been given a real boost by the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) by consumers. Modern connected embedded devices are becoming more attractive and are widely deployed across many big corporations, Small Offices/Home Offices (SOHOs), and Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMB) and are being directly utilized by global household consumers. As per www.statista.com, connected IoT devices have grown from 15.41 billion devices in 2015 to 35.82 billion devices in 2021, and there are expected to be 75.44 billion devices by 2025. In the same way, threats have grown, and the security of these devices has become the biggest area of concern to manufacturers and consumers. A recent good example of this is the vulnerabilities found in Realtek chipsets (CVE-2021-35395) that affected 65+ vendors that produce smart devices. The way the attacks originated indicates that they might have been done by the same attackers that created...