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Boston Globe
27-03-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
The Signal scandal is even dumber than it looks
Advertisement That's not the only boneheaded decision revealed by this week's self-inflicted leak. It appears, from the now-published exchange, that the administration may be ignoring other basic cybersecurity protocols. Here's how. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Relying on Signal for security Signal is more secure than your average chat app, but it falls far short of military standards. 'Any normal person would have been arrested already' for discussing military operations on Signal, said Signal features end-to-end encryption that's supposed to be much more secure than standard voice and chat smartphone apps. In fact, last December, the US But the federal advisory didn't say that Signal was suitable for use in conducting airstrikes. And according to Schneier, it's not even close. For one thing, military-grade systems use their own custom-made encryption algorithms. For another, the phones they run on feature custom-made operating systems, not the standard iOS or Android software found on consumer phones. Relying on consumer-grade phones Hackers are constantly on the hunt for ways to crack iOS and Android systems. This could enable them to smuggle spyware onto a supposedly secure phone. Once the device is compromised, Signal messages could be intercepted before they were encrypted. Advertisement 'Those systems are not secure in any important sense,' said Dan O'Dowd, chief executive of Green Hills Software, a California company that makes hardened phone systems for military use. This isn't news to the Trump administration. During last year's election, the Trump campaign began using Green Hills secure phones after learning that phones used by Trump and Vice President JD Vance were attacked by China-based hackers. Yet the president's national security team failed to take the hint. Connecting one Signal-equipped phone to another is designed to be easy — maybe too easy. Hackers believed to be based in Russia have used phishing emails to trick people into connecting their Signal accounts to cybercriminals looking to steal sensitive data. NPR reports that the Pentagon last week alerted all personnel to avoid using Signal to discuss even unclassified military matters, because of the phishing threat. In addition, the German magazine Der Spiegel on Wednesday said it has uncovered mobile phone numbers, email addresses and passwords used by national security adviser Mike Waltz, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, and director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The sensitive information was found in the records of commercial data brokers and in files published by hackers on underground web sites, the magazine said. But a military-grade system isn't vulnerable this way, Schneier said. Each participant in a chat has to have a secure device and must be cleared in advance to participate in such communications. 'A military-grade encryption product is not going to have the ability to link random people to it,' Schneier said. So forget about a journalist stumbling in by accident. 'It's restricted in the mistakes it can make,' Schneier said. Advertisement Disregarding government transparency There's one more troubling aspect to the Signal affair — its possible damage to our right to know what our leaders are doing. Signal is famous for offering 'disappearing messages,' which can be programmed to delete themselves after 24 hours from every device that receives them. It's a handy way to ensure that a user's careless comments won't come back to haunt her. But it runs headlong into the government's responsibility to keep accurate records of official activities. It's not a new question, either. In 2021, the Defense Department's It's unclear whether the messages intercepted by Goldberg were intended to self-delete. But it doesn't inspire confidence when government officials make critical decisions using a technology that can automatically cover their tracks. Hiawatha Bray can be reached at
Associated Press
19-03-2025
- Automotive
- Associated Press
Green Hills Software and NXP Collaborate on Integrated Solutions Advancements for the New S32K5 Microcontroller Family
Green Hills Software, the worldwide leader in embedded safety and security, today announced its collaboration with NXP ® Semiconductors to provide a combined hardware and software solution for developing and deploying safety-focused, mixed-criticality SDV zonal architectures based on NXP's new S32K5 MCU family. The software solution features the ASIL D safety-certified µ-velOSity™ real-time operating system (RTOS), the µ-visor ® hypervisor for MCUs, and the industry-leading Green Hills Compilers, and advanced MULTI ® debugger with system visualization tools. This combination from NXP and Green Hills Software enables OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers to safely consolidate mixed-criticality ECU functions while reducing system complexity, lowering development cost and time-to-production while improving software reuse in new vehicle programs. Emerging designs for next-generation vehicle electronics must adapt to accommodate the growth and consolidation of software features with advanced new electronics architectures. Customers require a flexible and performant compute platform that is able to safely consolidate hardware and software with freedom-from-interference while providing uncompromised real-time performance, lower cost, and more system reliability. In addition, time-to-market pressures require a software development environment that reduces the time and cost to develop, integrate, optimize, and deploy millions of lines of code in complex heterogenous multicore, multi-OS ECUs. 'As vehicle ECU functions are consolidated, automakers must ensure functional safety while reducing system complexity and development time,' says David Vieira, Senior Director, Automotive Zonal Solutions at NXP. 'We're pleased to partner with Green Hills to enable our new S32K5 MCU family with solutions to help automakers accelerate and streamline vehicle development without compromising on safety.' 'Green Hills is thrilled to be working with NXP to provide early and extensive enablement for NXP's latest microcontroller family, the S32K5,' said Dan Mender, Vice President, Business Development, Green Hills Software. 'By using our comprehensive production-focused software solutions, customers can develop their next-generation zonal and domain controllers with the most performant, scalable, configurable offerings available, significantly reducing the time to production and cost to develop.' This hardware/software solution is ideal for automotive applications targeting up to ISO 26262 ASIL D certification such as zone controllers, domain controllers, premium body and safety controllers. The S32K5 family of MCUs offers high performance, increased networking capability, and innovative hardware-enforced safety isolation – all at low power consumption. The production-focused software products and technologies from Green Hills provide the proven foundation for customers to efficiently develop and optimize their applications in next-generation SDV architectures. Safe, Secure ECU Consolidation – With near-zero overhead, the Green Hills µ-visor hypervisor safely and securely consolidates multiple operating systems, such as AUTOSAR Classic or µ-velOSity, and their workloads in virtual machines. µ-visor can run one or more Guest OSes on a single Arm ® Cortex ® -R52 core with hardware-based enforcement to isolate Guest OSes and their applications. Efficient & Performant – The µ-velOSity RTOS has a small footprint and simple programming model and can run on any of the S32K5's Cortex-M7 or Cortex-R52 real-time cores. Green Hills Optimizing Compilers produce the smallest and highest performance code for Arm Cortex-M and Cortex-R cores. Together, they are the ultra-efficient software foundation to take advantage of the S32K5's expanded performance. Safety & Security – The S32K5 supports applications targeting ASIL D safety and ISO/SAE 21434 automotive cybersecurity. Likewise, the µ-velOSity RTOS and Green Hills Compilers and run-time libraries are certified to ISO 26262 ASIL D. Additionally, the safety team at Green Hills offers services to help customer design and certify their safety systems. Find and Fix Bugs Faster – The MULTI integrated development environment (IDE) gives developers a unified view across all the running S32K5 real-time processor cores and OSes, such as AUTOSAR, FreeRTOS, or µ-velOSity, cutting development time and shortening time-to-production. Time-saving advanced features include multicore OS-aware debugging, trace-powered TimeMachine ® back-in-time debugging, and the History ® viewer of system events. To resolve software problems earlier, MULTI includes a MISRA C Adherence Wizard and DoubleCheck™ that automatically analyzes code during compilation, enabling engineers to detect and resolve problems more efficiently than stand-alone redundant-pass static code analyzers. Complete Offering for NXP's S32K5 MCU Family: Availability The S32K5 platform was demonstrated in the NXP booth at embedded world, March 11-13, 2025, and is available to early customers today, running and integrated with the Synopsys Virtualizer™ S32K5 VDK virtual model simulator. About Green Hills Software Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is the worldwide leader in embedded safety and security. In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY ® -178 RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership comprised of NSA & NIST) to EAL 6+, High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. Our open architecture integrated development solutions address deeply embedded, absolute security and high-reliability applications for the military/avionics, medical, industrial, automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at Green Hills, the Green Hills logo, MULTI, INTEGRITY, History, DoubleCheck, TimeMachine, µ-visor and µ-velOSity are trademarks or registered trademarks of Green Hills Software LLC, in the U.S. and/or internationally. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Green Hills Software Christopher Smith SOURCE: Green Hills Software Copyright Business Wire 2025. PUB: 03/19/2025 08:05 AM/DISC: 03/19/2025 08:06 AM
