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Experimental Characterization Results and State-of-the-Art Device-Level Studies of DRAM Read Disturbance
By Technical Paper Link - 25 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 1

A new technical paper titled "Revisiting DRAM Read Disturbance: Identifying Inconsistencies Between Experimental Characterization and Device-Level Studies" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. Abstract "Modern DRAM is vulnerable to read disturbance (e.g., RowHammer and RowPress) that significantly undermines the robust operation of the system. Repeatedly opening and closing a DRAM ro... » read more

Multi-Party Computation for Securing Chiplets
By Technical Paper Link - 12 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Garblet: Multi-party Computation for Protecting Chiplet-based Systems" was published by Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Abstract "The introduction of shared computation architectures assembled from heterogeneous chiplets introduces new security threats. Due to the shared logical and physical resources, an untrusted chiplet can act maliciously to surreptitiousl... » read more

Solution To Read Disturbance For Current And Future DRAM Chips at Low Area, Performance And Energy Costs (ETH Zurich et al.)
By Technical Paper Link - 07 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Chronus: Understanding and Securing the Cutting-Edge Industry Solutions to DRAM Read Disturbance" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich, TOBB, and University of Sharjah. Abstract "We 1) present the first rigorous security, performance, energy, and cost analyses of the state-of-the-art on-DRAM-die read disturbance mitigation method, Per Row Activation Count... » read more

Understanding Fault Injection Attacks At The Pre-Silicon Level
By Technical Paper Link - 07 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "CRAFT: Characterizing and Root-Causing Fault Injection Threats at Pre-Silicon" was published by researchers at North Carolina State University. Abstract "Fault injection attacks represent a class of threats that can compromise embedded systems across multiple layers of abstraction, such as system software, instruction set architecture (ISA), microarchitecture, ... » read more

Effects Of Reduced Refresh Latency On RowHammer Vulnerability Of DDR4 DRAM Chips
By Technical Paper Link - 04 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Understanding RowHammer Under Reduced Refresh Latency: Experimental Analysis of Real DRAM Chips and Implications on Future Solutions" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, and University of Sharjah. Abstract "RowHammer is a major read disturbance mechanism in DRAM where repeatedly accessing (hammering) a row of... » read more

SW-HW Co-Design Mitigation To Strengthen ASLR Against Microarchitectural Attacks (MIT)
By Technical Paper Link - 26 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Oreo: Protecting ASLR Against Microarchitectural Attacks" was published by researchers at MIT. Abstract "Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is one of the most prominently deployed mitigations against memory corruption attacks. ASLR randomly shuffles program virtual addresses to prevent attackers from knowing the location of program contents in memory. Microa... » read more

Temporal Variation in DRAM Read Disturbance in DDR4 and HBM2 (ETH Zurich, Rutgers)
By Technical Paper Link - 19 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Variable Read Disturbance: An Experimental Analysis of Temporal Variation in DRAM Read Disturbance" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich and Rutgers University. Abstract "Modern DRAM chips are subject to read disturbance errors. State-of-the-art read disturbance mitigations rely on accurate and exhaustive characterization of the read disturbance threshold... » read more

Rowhammer Mitigation With Adaptive Refresh Management Optimization (KAIST, Sk hynix)
By Technical Paper Link - 12 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Securing DRAM at Scale: ARFM-Driven Row Hammer Defense with Unveiling the Threat of Short tRC Patterns" was published by researchers at KAIST and Sk hynix. Abstract (partial) "To address the issue of powerful row hammer (RH) attacks, our study involved an extensive analysis of the prevalent attack patterns in the field. We discovered a strong correlation betwee... » read more

HW Security: Pager, Walkie-talkie And Other Battery-Power System Attacks (U. of Florida)
By Technical Paper Link - 31 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "When Everyday Devices Become Weapons: A Closer Look at the Pager and Walkie-talkie Attacks" was published by researchers at University of Florida. Abstract "Battery-powered technologies like pagers and walkie-talkies have long been integral to civilian and military operations. However, the potential for such everyday devices to be weaponized has largely been un... » read more

Apple CPU Attacks: SLAP and FLOP (Georgia Tech, Ruhr University Bochum)
By Technical Paper Link - 29 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

Two technical papers were published by researchers at Georgia Tech and Ruhr University Bochum detailing CPU side-channel attack vulnerabilities on Apple devices that could reveal confidential data. FLOP: Breaking the Apple M3 CPU via False Load Output Predictions"  Authors: Jason Kim, Jalen Chuang, Daniel Genkin and Yuval Yarom 2025. "We present FLOP, another speculative execution att... » read more

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