tag: fault injection

Breaking The “Unhackable” Xbox One
By Jasper van Woudenberg - 04 Jun, 2026 - Comments: 0

For more than a decade, the Xbox One stood out as one of the most resilient consumer devices ever built. While other consoles from the same era were eventually jailbroken or modified, the Xbox One remained largely untouched. Its layered defenses, hardened boot process, and strong cryptographic foundations earned it a reputation as effectively “unhackable.” That assumption changed at RE//... » read more

Silent Data Corruption: A Major Reliability Challenge in Large-Scale LLM Training (TU Berlin)
By Technical Paper Link - 12 Apr, 2026 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper, "Exploring Silent Data Corruption as a Reliability Challenge in LLM Training," was published by researchers at Technische Universitat Berlin. Abstract "As Large Language Models (LLMs) scale in size and complexity, the consequences of failures during training become increasingly severe. A major challenge arises from Silent Data Corruption (SDC): hardware-induced faults... » read more

Securing Hardware For The Quantum Era
By Ann Mutschler - 05 Feb, 2026 - Comments: 0

Key Takeaways: Quantum threats to security are already real. Adversaries are already harvesting data that will be decrypted later by quantum computers. Quantum computers capable of breaking RSA and ECC may arrive as early as next year. Asymmetric encryption algorithms like RSA and ECC will become inadequate against quantum threats, while symmetric encryption (such as AES) is less vul... » read more

Airbus A320 Recall: Rethinking Fault Testing In Aerospace
By Marc Witteman - 08 Jan, 2026 - Comments: 0

Fault injection is usually discussed in the context of security, where adversaries deliberately induce faults to bypass protections or extract sensitive information. In safety engineering, by contrast, faults are often treated as rare, random events driven by natural or environmental factors. The recent Airbus A320 recall is a good example of how a primarily safety incident can still benefit fr... » read more

Don’t Get Knocked Off the Curve: Fault Injection on Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems
By Keysight - 03 Dec, 2025 - Comments: 0

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is a core component in securing digital systems, widely used in applications ranging from internet communications to embedded devices. It supports key cryptographic protocols such as the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) and Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH), both of which rely on the presumed difficulty of underlying mathematical problems. ... » read more

New Approaches To Limit Cyberattacks On Hardware
By Ann Mutschler - 09 Oct, 2025 - Comments: 0

The number and value of cyberattacks on semiconductors is rising, but new approaches to designing and packaging chips could put a significant dent in those figures. Semiconductor-related cybersecurity attacks have multiplied more than six times since 2022, according to a report by cyber intelligence firm CloudSEK. These attacks have cost the semiconductor industry an estimated $1.05 billion ... » read more

Efficient Failure-Detection Methods for GPU Control-Logic (Hitachi, Osaka Univ., Kyoto Univ.)
By Technical Paper Link - 21 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "A Hardware-Aware Failure-Detection Method for GPU Control-Logic" was published by researchers at Hitachi, Ltd., Osaka University, and Kyoto University. Excerpt "Various failure detection methods have been proposed for SDCs caused by faults in data units such as registers. However, effective methods for detecting SDCs resulting from faults in control logic, such... » read more

FPGA Fault Injection Attacks (ASU, KIT)
By Technical Paper Link - 29 Oct, 2024 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Hacking the Fabric: Targeting Partial Reconfiguration for Fault Injection in FPGA Fabrics" was published by researchers at Arizona State University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Abstract "FPGAs are now ubiquitous in cloud computing infrastructures and reconfigurable system-on-chip, particularly for AI acceleration. Major cloud service providers s... » read more

A Novel Attack For Depleting DNN Model Inference With Runtime Code Fault Injections
By Technical Paper Link - 19 Aug, 2024 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Yes, One-Bit-Flip Matters! Universal DNN Model Inference Depletion with Runtime Code Fault Injection” was presented at the August 2024 USENIX Security Symposium by researchers at Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CSIRO's Data61, University of Western Australia, and University of Waterloo. Abstract: "We propose, FrameFlip, a novel attack ... » read more

Interoperability And Automation Yield A Scalable And Efficient Safety Workflow
By Ann Keffer - 07 Mar, 2024 - Comments: 0

By Ann Keffer, Arun Gogineni, and James Kim Cars deploying ADAS and AV features rely on complex digital and analog systems to perform critical real-time applications. The large number of faults that need to be tested in these modern automotive designs make performing safety verification using a single technology impractical. Yet, developing an optimized safety methodology with specific f... » read more

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