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Embedded systems are ubiquitous and play critical roles in management systems for industry and transport. Software failures in these domains may lead to loss of production or even loss of life, so the software in these systems needs to be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Per Erik Strandberg

The prevalence of IoT devices makes them an ideal target for attackers. To reduce the risk of attacks vendors routinely deliver security updates (patches) for their devices. The delivery of security updates becomes challenging due to the…

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The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing systems has intensified the need for robust, hardware-rooted trust mechanisms capable of ensuring device authenticity and AI model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Maryam Taghi Zadeh , Mohsen Ahmadi

To facilitate monitoring and management, modern Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) are often equipped with wireless capabilities, which raise the risk of malicious access to IMDs. Although schemes are proposed to secure the IMD access, some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Haotian Chi , Longfei Wu , Xiaojiang Du , Qiang Zeng , Paul Ratazzi

Guaranteeing runtime integrity of embedded system software is an open problem. Trade-offs between security and other priorities (e.g., cost or performance) are inherent, and resolving them is both challenging and important. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Ivan De Oliveira Nunes , Sashidhar Jakkamsetti , Youngil Kim , Gene Tsudik

Over-the-air (OTA) firmware updates are essential for updating and maintaining IoT devices, especially those batteryless devices reliant on energy harvesting power sources. Flash memory, favored for its low cost and high density, is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Wei Wei , Jishnu Banerjee , Sahidul Islam , Chen Pan , Mimi Xie

A potential vulnerability for integrated circuits (ICs) is the insertion of hardware trojans (HTs) during manufacturing. Understanding the practicability of such an attack can lead to appropriate measures for mitigating it. In this paper,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Alexander Hepp , Tiago Perez , Samuel Pagliarini , Georg Sigl

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are becoming increasingly important. These devices are often resource-limited, hindering rigorous enforcement of security policies. Assessing the vulnerability of IoT devices is an important problem, but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Davino Mauro Junior , Luis Melo , Harvey Lu , Marcelo d'Amorim , Atul Prakash

A large number of IoT devices are connected via the Internet. However, most of these IoT devices are generally not perfect-by-design even have security weaknesses or vulnerabilities. Thus, it is essential to update these IoT devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Yanqi Zhao , Yiming Liu , Yong Yu , Yannan Li

Embedded devices are specialised devices designed for one or only a few purposes. They are often part of a larger system, through wired or wireless connection. Those embedded devices that are connected to other computers or embedded systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Gergely Hevesi

Protecting embedded security is becoming an increasingly challenging research problem for embedded systems due to a number of emerging trends in hardware, software, networks, and applications. Without fundamental advances in, and an…

Modern computing systems rely on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), which has replaced the traditional BIOS as the firmware standard for the modern boot process. Despite the advancements, UEFI is increasingly targeted by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Kalanit Suzan Segal , Hadar Cochavi Gorelik , Oleg Brodt , Yuval Elbahar , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

The automotive industry is increasingly reliant on software to manage complex vehicle functionalities, making efficient and secure firmware updates essential. Traditional firmware update methods, requiring physical connections through…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Mostafa A. Mostafa , Mohamed K. Mohamed , Radwa W. Ezzat

Our society becomes increasingly dependent on wireless communications. The tremendous growth in the number and type of wirelessly connected devices in a combination with the dropping cost for performing cyberattacks create new challenges…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Elena Dubrova

Modern society is getting accustomed to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) for a variety of applications that involves security-critical user data and information transfers. In the lower end of the spectrum, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Avani Dave Nilanjan Banerjee Chintan Patel

The cybersecurity threat landscape is constantly actively making it imperative to develop sound frameworks to protect the IT structures. Based on this introduction, this paper aims to discuss the application of cybersecurity frameworks into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Amit Lokare , Shripad Bankar , Padmajeet Mhaske

With more and more devices becoming connectable to the internet, the number of services but also a lot of threats increases dramatically. Security is often a secondary matter behind functionality and comfort, but the problem has already…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Quanyan Zhu , Stefan Rass , Peter Schartner

Proliferation of IoT devices in society demands a renewed focus on securing the use and maintenance of such systems. IoT-based systems will have a great impact on society and therefore such systems must have guaranteed resilience. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-07 John Wickström , Magnus Westerlund , Göran Pulkkis

Recent technological advancements have enabled proliferated use of small embedded and IoT devices for collecting, processing, and transferring the security-critical information and user data. This exponential use has acted as a catalyst in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Avani Dave , Nilanjan Banerjee , Chintan Patel

Secure signal processing is becoming a de facto model for preserving privacy. We propose a model based on the Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) technique to mitigate security breaches. Our framework provides a method to perform a Fast…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Thomas Shortell , Ali Shokoufandeh