Researchers have discovered security holes in the hardware encryption implementation of several solid state disks (SSDs) manufactured by Crucial (owned by Micron) and Samsung, which could allow attackers to bypass the disk encryption feature and access the data on them without having to know the user’s password. The findings Carlo Meijer and Bernard van Gastel from Radboud University have analyzed the security of seven SSD disks by reverse engineering their firmware:

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