Security Technical Paper Roundup: Aug. 27


A number of hardware security-related technical papers were presented at the August 2024 USENIX Security Symposium. The organization provides open access research, and the presentation slides and papers are free to the public. Topics include side-channel attacks and defenses, embedded security, fuzzing, fault injection, logic locking, Rowhammer, and more. Here are some highlights with associate... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Chinese firms imported almost $26 billion worth of chipmaking machinery, according to fresh trade data released by China’s General Administration of Customs this week, Bloomberg reports. Meanwhile, the global semiconductor manufacturing industry continued to show signs of improvement in Q2 2024 with significant growth of IC sales, stabilizing capital expenditure, and an increase in install... » read more

A Novel Attack For Depleting DNN Model Inference With Runtime Code Fault Injections


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