category: Security

category: IoT, Security & Automotive

Assessing & Simulating Semiconductor Side-Channel or Unintended Data Leakage Vulnerabilities
By Technical Paper Link - 09 Aug, 2022 - Comments: 0

This research paper titled "Multiphysics Simulation of EM Side-Channels from Silicon Backside with ML-based Auto-POI Identification" from researchers at Ansys, National Taiwan University and Kobe University won the best paper award at IEEE's International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST). The paper presents a new tool "to assess unintended data leakage vulnerabilities... » read more

Prefetch Side Channels Undermine the Isolation Between User and Kernel Space on AMD CPUs
By Technical Paper Link - 08 Aug, 2022 - Comments: 0

This new technical paper titled "AMD Prefetch Attacks through Power and Time" is from researchers at Graz University of Technology and CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Note, this is a prepublication paper for the USENIX Security Symposium in Boston in August 2022.   This paper includes countermeasures and mitigation strategies, and the paper indicates that the findings were di... » read more

Securing Heterogeneous Integration at the Chiplet, Interposer, and System-In-Package Levels (FICS-University of Florida)
By Technical Paper Link - 04 Aug, 2022 - Comments: 0

A new research paper titled "ToSHI - Towards Secure Heterogeneous Integration: Security Risks, Threat Assessment, and Assurance" was published by researchers at the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research, University of Florida. Abstract "The semiconductor industry is entering a new age in which device scaling and cost reduction will no longer follow the decades-long pattern. Pa... » read more

Secure Physical Design Roadmap Enabling End-To-End Trustworthy IC Design Flow
By Technical Paper Link - 21 Jul, 2022 - Comments: 0

The FICS Research Institute (University of Florida) has published a new research paper titled "Secure Physical Design." This is the first and most comprehensive research work done in this area that requires significant attention from academia, industry, and government for ensuring trust in electronic design automation flow," said lead author Sukanta Dey. Abstract "An integrated circuit is s... » read more

Publicly Available Dataset for PCB X-Ray Inspection (FICS- University of Florida)
By Technical Paper Link - 19 Jul, 2022 - Comments: 0

Researchers from the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) at the University of Florida published this technical paper titled "FICS PCB X-ray: A dataset for automated printed circuit board inter-layers inspection." Abstract "Advancements in computer vision and machine learning breakthroughs over the years have paved the way for automated X-ray inspection (AXI) of printed circuit bo... » read more

Reduce RowHammer Vulnerability By Reducing Wordline Voltage
By Technical Paper Link - 18 Jul, 2022 - Comments: 0

Researchers from ETH Zurich present a new technical paper titled "Understanding RowHammer Under Reduced Wordline Voltage: An Experimental Study Using Real DRAM Devices." Abstract (Partial) "This is the first work to experimentally demonstrate on 272 real DRAM chips that lowering VPP reduces a DRAM chip's RowHammer vulnerability. We show that lowering VPP 1) increases the number of activat... » read more

RETBLEED: New Spectre-BTI Attack (ETH Zurich)
By Technical Paper Link - 13 Jul, 2022 - Comments: 0

New Spectre-BTI attack that "leaks arbitrary kernel memory." It's detailed in this research paper titled “RETBLEED: Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions” from researchers at ETH Zürich. Mitigations are available. Abstract "Modern operating systems rely on software defenses against hardware attacks. These defenses are, however, as good as the assumptions they m... » read more

Delay-based PUF for Chiplets to Verify System Integrity
By Technical Paper Link - 08 Jul, 2022 - Comments: 0

New technical paper titled "Know Time to Die – Integrity Checking for Zero Trust Chiplet-based Systems Using Between-Die Delay PUFs" by researchers at University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, Abstract (partial): "In this paper we propose a delay-based PUF for chiplets to verify system integrity. Our technique allows a single chiplet to initiate a protocol with its neighbors to measure un... » read more

Hertzbleed: A New Family of Side-Channel Attacks–Root Case: Dynamic Frequency Scaling
By Technical Paper Link - 01 Jul, 2022 - Comments: 0

  New research paper titled "Hertzbleed: Turning Power Side-Channel Attacks Into Remote Timing Attacks on x86" from researchers at UT Austin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and University of Washington can be found here. (preprint). This paper will be presented at the 31st USENIX Security Symposium (Boston, 10–12 August 2022). Summary explanation of the Hertzbleed ... » read more

“All-in-One” 8×8 Array of Low-Power & Bio-inspired Crypto Engines w/IoT Edge Sensors Based on 2D Memtransistors
By Technical Paper Link - 01 Jul, 2022 - Comments: 0

New technical paper titled "All-in-one, bio-inspired, and low-power crypto engines for near-sensor security based on two-dimensional memtransistors" from researchers at Penn State University. Abstract: "In the emerging era of the internet of things (IoT), ubiquitous sensors continuously collect, consume, store, and communicate a huge volume of information which is becoming increasingly vuln... » read more

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