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Safe memory reclamation is crucial to memory safety for optimistic and lock-free concurrent data structures in non garbage collected programming languages. However, several challenges arise in designing an ideal safe memory reclamation…

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Deep neural network models are massively deployed on a wide variety of hardware platforms. This results in the appearance of new attack vectors that significantly extend the standard attack surface, extensively studied by the adversarial…

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The increasing density of modern DRAM has heightened its vulnerability to Rowhammer attacks, which induce bit flips by repeatedly accessing specific memory rows. This paper presents an analysis of bit flip patterns generated by advanced…

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Hardware-level memory vulnerabilities severely threaten computing systems. However, hardware patching is inefficient or difficult postfabrication. We investigate the effectiveness of hardware fuzzing in detecting hardware memory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Mohamadreza Rostami , Chen Chen , Rahul Kande , Huimin Li , Jeyavijayan Rajendran , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

By developing communications and increase of access points, computer networks have been vulnerable considerably against wide range of information attacks, specially new and complicated attacks. Every day, replication attacks attack millions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Amir Hosein Bodaghi

The rapid growth of interest in quantum computing has brought about the need to secure these powerful machines against a range of physical attacks. As qubit counts increase and quantum computers achieve higher levels of fidelity, their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Chuanqi Xu , Ferhat Erata , Jakub Szefer

This article considers the design and analysis of multiple moving target defenses for recognizing and isolating attacks on cyber-physical systems. We consider attackers who perform integrity attacks on a set of sensors and actuators in a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Paul Griffioen , Sean Weerakkody , Bruno Sinopoli

Cyber-physical systems integrate computation, communication, and physical capabilities to interact with the physical world and humans. Besides failures of components, cyber-physical systems are prone to malignant attacks, and specific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Fabio Pasqualetti , Florian Dörfler , Francesco Bullo

Bit-flip attacks (BFAs) have attracted substantial attention recently, in which an adversary could tamper with a small number of model parameter bits to break the integrity of DNNs. To mitigate such threats, a batch of defense methods are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Jialai Wang , Ziyuan Zhang , Meiqi Wang , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang , Qi Li , Zongpeng Li , Tao Wei , Chao Zhang

In contemporary times, the increasing complexity of the system poses significant challenges to the reliability, trustworthiness, and security of the SACRES. Key issues include the susceptibility to phenomena such as instantaneous voltage…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Enrico Magliano , Alessio Carpegna , Alessadro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo

RowHammer is a circuit-level DRAM vulnerability where repeatedly accessing (i.e., hammering) a DRAM row can cause bit flips in physically nearby rows. The RowHammer vulnerability worsens as DRAM cell size and cell-to-cell spacing shrink.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Lois Orosa , Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı , Haocong Luo , Ataberk Olgun , Jisung Park , Hasan Hassan , Minesh Patel , Jeremie S. Kim , Onur Mutlu

Due to their performance and simplicity, rigid body simulators are often used in applications where the objects of interest can considered very stiff. However, no material has infinite stiffness, which means there are potentially cases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Aravind Ramakrishnan , David I. W. Levin , Alec Jacobson

Recently, Bit-Flip Attack (BFA) has garnered widespread attention for its ability to compromise software system integrity remotely through hardware fault injection. With the widespread distillation and deployment of large language models…

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Side-channel attacks on memory (SCAM) exploit unintended data leaks from memory subsystems to infer sensitive information, posing significant threats to system security. These attacks exploit vulnerabilities in memory access patterns, cache…

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In today's digital age, the ease of data collection, transfer, and storage continue to shape modern society and the ways we interact with our world. The advantages are numerous, but there is also an increased risk of information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Jack Edmonds , Fatemeh Tehranipoor

Processing in memory (PiM) represents a promising computing paradigm to enhance performance of numerous data-intensive applications. Variants performing computing directly in emerging nonvolatile memories can deliver very high energy…

In cloud computing, network Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are well studied and defenses have been implemented, but severe DoS attacks on a victim's working memory by a single hostile VM are not well understood. Memory DoS attacks are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Tianwei Zhang , Yinqian Zhang , Ruby B. Lee

Semiconductor NAND Flash based memory technology dominates the electronic Non-Volatile storage media market. Though NAND Flash offers superior performance and reliability over conventional magnetic HDDs, yet it suffers from certain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Abhilash Garg , Supriya Chakraborty , Manoj Malik , Devesh Kumar , Satyajeet Singh , Manan Suri

Our ISCA 2014 paper provided the first scientific and detailed characterization, analysis, and real-system demonstration of what is now popularly known as the RowHammer phenomenon (or vulnerability) in modern commodity DRAM chips, which are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Onur Mutlu

Physical adversarial attacks are increasingly studied in settings that resemble deployed surveillance systems rather than isolated image benchmarks. In these settings, person detection, multi-object tracking, visible--infrared sensing, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Miguel A. DelaCruz , Patricia Mae Santos , Rafael T. Navarro