tag: hardware security

Side-Channel Attacks Via Cache On the RISC-V Processor Configuration
By Technical Paper Link - 29 Jan, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "A cross-process Spectre attack via cache on RISC-V processor with trusted execution environment" was published by researchers at University of Electro-Communication, Academy of Cryptography Techniques, Technology Research Association of Secure IoT Edge Application based on RISC-V Open Architecture (TRASIO), and AIST. "This work proposed a cross-process exploitation ... » read more

Hardware Trojan Detection Case Study Based on 4 Different ICs Manufactured in Progressively Smaller CMOS Process Technologies
By Technical Paper Link - 11 Jan, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Red Team vs. Blue Team: A Real-World Hardware Trojan Detection Case Study Across Four Modern CMOS Technology Generations" was published by researchers at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Ruhr University Bochum, and Bundeskriminalamt. "In this work, we aim to improve upon this state of the art by presenting a... » read more

How Secure Are RISC-V Chips?
By Jeff Goldman - 05 Jan, 2023 - Comments: 3

When the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities were first uncovered in 2018, they heralded an industry-wide shift in perspective regarding processor security. As the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index put it the following year, "2018 ushered in a new era of hardware security challenges that forced enterprises and the security community to rethink the way they approach hardware security." R... » read more

Hardware Fuzzing (U. of Michigan, Google, Virginia Tech)
By Technical Paper Link - 18 Dec, 2022 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Fuzzing Hardware Like Software" was published by researchers at University of Michigan, Google and Virginia Tech. The paper was presented at the 2022 Usenix Security Symposium. Abstract: "Hardware flaws are permanent and potent: hardware cannot be patched once fabricated, and any flaws may undermine even formally verified software executing on top. Consequently, ve... » read more

Hardware Security: New Mathematical Model To Quantify Information Flow in Digital Circuits For Different Attack Models (RWTH Aachen)
By Technical Paper Link - 06 Dec, 2022 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Quantitative Information Flow for Hardware: Advancing the Attack Landscape" was published by researchers at RWTH Aachen University. Abstract: "Security still remains an afterthought in modern Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, which solely focus on enhancing performance and reducing the chip size. Typically, the security analysis is conducted by hand, l... » read more

HW-Enabled Security Techniques To Improve Platform Security And Data Protection For Cloud Data Centers And Edge Computing (NIST)
By Technical Paper Link - 06 Dec, 2022 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Hardware-Enabled Security: Enabling a Layered Approach to Platform Security for Cloud and Edge Computing Use Cases" was published by NIST, Intel, AMD, Arm, IBM, Cisco and Scarfone Cybersecurity. Abstract: "In today’s cloud data centers and edge computing, attack surfaces have shifted and, in some cases, significantly increased. At the same time, hacking has becom... » read more

Hardware Trojans Target Coherence Systems in Chiplets (Texas A&M / NYU)
By Technical Paper Link - 01 Dec, 2022 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Hardware Trojan Threats to Cache Coherence in Modern 2.5D Chiplet Systems" was published by researchers at Texas A&M University and NYU. Abstract: "As industry moves toward chiplet-based designs, the insertion of hardware Trojans poses a significant threat to the security of these systems. These systems rely heavily on cache coherence for coherent data communic... » read more

HW Security: Fingerprints Of Digital Circuits Using Electromagnetic Side-Channel Sensing & Simulations (Georgia Tech)
By Technical Paper Link - 01 Dec, 2022 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Circuit Activity Fingerprinting Using Electromagnetic Side-Channel Sensing and Digital Circuit Simulations" was published by researchers at Georgia Tech. The work "introduces a novel circuit identification method based on “fingerprints” of periodic circuit activity that does not rely on any circuit-specific reference measurements. We capture these “fingerprint... » read more

EV Charging Cybersecurity Challenges (Sandia National Labs)
By Technical Paper Link - 23 Nov, 2022 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Review of Electric Vehicle Charger Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities, Potential Impacts, and Defenses" was published by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories. Abstract: "Worldwide growth in electric vehicle use is prompting new installations of private and public electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE). EVSE devices support the electrification of the transportat... » read more

Rowhammer: Recent Developments & Future Directions (ETH Zurich)
By Technical Paper Link - 20 Nov, 2022 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Fundamentally Understanding and Solving RowHammer" was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. Abstract: "We provide an overview of recent developments and future directions in the RowHammer vulnerability that plagues modern DRAM (Dynamic Random Memory Access) chips, which are used in almost all computing systems as main memory. RowHammer is the phenomenon i... » read more

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