Two presentations at S&P

COMSEC has two presentations this week at the annual S&P conference. Blacksmith shows that all TRR mitigations deployed in (LP)DDR4 devices are vulnerable to non-uniform access patterns and ProTRR shows how one can build a space-refresh optimal in-DRAM TRR mitigation with principled security guarantees. We also have a paper called Spring at the co-located WOOT…

Blacksmith in the news

Our recent efforts in the area of DRAM Security resulted in the discovery of new non-uniform access patterns that can bypass all currently deployed TRR mitigations on recent (LP)DDR4 devices and revive Rowhammer attacks on new devices. Citing the paper: “after almost a decade of research and deployed in-DRAM mitigations, we are perhaps in a…

Pwnie award for BlindSide

BlindSide won this year’s Pwnie award in the most innovative research category. BlindSide is a result of a multi-year collaboration between researchers from Stevens Institute of Technology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and ETH Zurich (COMSEC). Assume that drug A cures disease A and drug B cures diseases B. If a person has both diseases A and…

1st DRAMSec Workshop

Together with Stefan Saroiu (Microsoft), we are organizing the first First Workshop on DRAM Security (DRAMSec) co-located with ISCA 2021. We have an excellent TPC representing industry and academic experts to bring you a very nice program including paper presentations, a keynote and a lively panel. If you are interested in the topic, please consider…

Best Demo at HWSec’20

Each year at our annual Hardware Security course we hand out an award to the team with the most impressive demo from their work done during the semester. This year the winning team made a demo of an end-to-end attack that mixes the Flip Feng Shui with bit flips on DDR4 using the TRRespass technique.…

Pwnie award for TRRespass

The annual Pwnie awards ceremony was held virtually at the BlackHat Europe conference this week. Pwnie awards celebrate some of the best and worst events of the year in the information security community. This year, TRRespass won the Pwnie for the most innovative research. From the awards page: “Awarded to the researcher or team who…