Security Research: Technical Paper Round-Up


A number of hardware security-related technical papers were presented at recent conferences, including the August 2022 USENIX Security Symposium and IEEE’s International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST). Topics include side-channel attacks and defenses (including on-chip mesh interconnect attacks), heterogeneous attacks on cache hierarchies, rowhammer attacks and mitig... » read more

Assessing & Simulating Semiconductor Side-Channel or Unintended Data Leakage Vulnerabilities


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

Power/Performance Bits: May 2


Turning bottles into batteries Researchers at the University of California, Riverside used waste glass bottles and a low-cost chemical process to create nanosilicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Billions of glass bottles end up in landfills every year, prompting the researchers to ask whether silicon dioxide in waste beverage bottles could provide high purity silicon ... » read more