
HP launches TPM Guard to help defeat physical TPM attacks
The Trusted Platform Module (TPM), developed by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), is a mandatory security component in any computer running Windows 11. It stores sensitive information such as encryption keys in a separate, secure chip, passing it to the CPU as required. However, there’s a problem. If an attacker can get physical access to the device, they can use hardware costing less than $20, running readily available software, to grab those encryption keys as they are sent to the CPU, allowing data on the system to be readily decrypted by the attacker and stolen. At its Imagine event this week, HP announced a product that it says prevents this kind of attack without the need to make chan...