tag: hardware security

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

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

Reverse Engineering Approach for Evaluating HW IP Protection ( U. of Florida, Indiana U.)
By Technical Paper Link - 23 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Library-Attack: Reverse Engineering Approach for Evaluating Hardware IP Protection" was published by researchers at University of Florida and Indiana University. Abstract "Existing countermeasures for hardware IP protection, such as obfuscation, camouflaging, and redaction, aim to defend against confidentiality and integrity attacks. However, within the current thr... » read more

Fully Partitioned Security Monitoring Logic From Both The CPU’s Main Core and Privileged SW (KAIST)
By Technical Paper Link - 20 Dec, 2024 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Interstellar: Fully Partitioned and Efficient Security Monitoring Hardware Near a Processor Core for Protecting Systems against Attacks on Privileged Software" was published by researchers at KAIST. The paper states "The existing approaches to instruction trace-based security monitoring hardware are dependent on the privileged software, which presents a signific... » read more

SRAM PUF – The Secure Silicon Fingerprint
By Synopsys - 04 Dec, 2024 - Comments: 0

For many years, silicon Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have been seen as a promising and innovative security technology making steady progress. Today, Static Random-Access Memory (SRAM)-based PUFs have been deployed in hundreds of millions of devices and offer a mature and viable security component that is achieving widespread adoption in commercial products. They are found in devices ran... » read more

98 Hardware Security Failure Scenarios (NIST)
By Technical Paper Link - 03 Dec, 2024 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Hardware Security Failure Scenarios: Potential Hardware Weaknesses" was published by NIST. Abstract "Hardware is often assumed to be robust from a security perspective. However, chips are both created with software and contain complex encodings (e.g., circuit designs and firmware). This leads to bugs, some of which compromise security. This publication evaluate... » read more

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