Saiyan - Design and Implementation of a Low-power Demodulator for LoRa Backscatter Systems
Ultra-low-power demodulator for long-range LoRa backscatter systems, enabling feedback demodulation, packet retransmission, rate adaptation, and channel hopping with improved range and efficiency.
Passive DSSS - Empowering the Downlink Communication for Backscatter Systems
Innovative technique to enhance downlink communication in backscatter systems using passive DSSS, improving SINR by 16.5 dB and extending effective range while maintaining ultra-low power consumption.
ICARUS - Attacking Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks
Explores vulnerabilities in low Earth orbit satellite networks, introducing ICARUS attacks that exploit global accessibility, low-latency constraints, and network predictability to disrupt communications over large areas.
Towards Programming the Radio Environment with Large Arrays of Inexpensive Antennas
Explore reconfiguring wireless environments with large arrays of inexpensive antennas to improve communication. Innovative approach achieves significant throughput and capacity gains in real indoor settings.
Adventures in Hardware Hacking or Building Expensive Tools on a Budget
Explore hardware hacking techniques like CT scanning and chip decapping for non-destructive device analysis, circuit reconstruction, and vulnerability identification in embedded systems and access control.
5G Protocol Vulnerabilities and Exploits
Explore 5G protocol vulnerabilities and exploits, analyzing real traffic captures to uncover potential security issues in pre-authentication messages and discuss implications for mobile network security.
Applicable and Achievable Formal Verification
Introductory overview of formal verification techniques in industry, focusing on safety-critical systems. Explores tools, applications, and adaptability to existing infrastructures.
Control Theory for SRE
Learn to create a PID controller for autoscaling Kubernetes deployments, ensuring smooth scaling based on custom targets. Explore control theory principles and their application in SRE practices.
Not Everything is Dark and Gloomy - Power Grid Protections Against IoT Demand Attacks
Explores IoT demand attacks on power grids, analyzing cascading outages and system vulnerabilities. Presents findings from a large-scale North American grid study, discussing protective measures and future challenges.
Discovering and Understanding the Security Hazards in the Interactions between IoT Devices, Mobile Apps, and Clouds on Smart Home Platforms
Exploring security vulnerabilities in smart home platforms through reverse engineering and phantom device testing, revealing unexpected state transitions and potential attacks.
fTPM - A Software-Only Implementation of a TPM Chip
Explore software-based TPM implementation using ARM TrustZone, overcoming hardware limitations to provide robust security features for trusted computing in mobile devices.
AmphiLight - Direct Air Water Communication with Laser Light
Innovative laser-based system for high-bandwidth bidirectional air-water communication, adapting to water dynamics and offering 3D steering capabilities for improved underwater operations and coordination.
Food and Liquid Sensing in Practical Environments Using RFIDs
Innovative RF sensing system for non-invasive food and liquid identification in closed containers, achieving high accuracy across various applications and environments.
Why You Should Burn Down Your Datacenter
Explore datacenter optimization challenges, integrating infrastructure management with power, space, and cooling systems. Learn about industrial controls and their limitations in this thought-provoking talk.
Kind Engineering - How to Engineer Kindness
Explore practical strategies for fostering kindness in software engineering, covering code reviews, psychological safety, feedback, and workplace honesty to create happier teams and companies.
Attacks From a New Front Door in 4G & 5G Mobile Networks
Unveils critical API vulnerabilities in 4G/5G networks, exposing risks for AI, MEC, and IoT applications. Explores attack vectors, security misconfigurations, and potential exploits in commercial providers' systems.
Breaking Secure Bootloaders
Explore techniques to bypass secure bootloaders, including signature verification vulnerabilities, memory analysis, and firmware update exploits. Learn to identify and exploit weaknesses in modern device protection mechanisms.
5G IMSI Catchers Mirage
Investigates 5G security mechanisms against IMSI catchers, exploring vulnerabilities and protection techniques through practical experiments with commercial devices.
Attacking IOBluetoothFamily HCI and Vendor-Specific Commands
Explores vulnerabilities in Bluetooth stacks, focusing on Host-Controller Interface (HCI) and vendor-specific commands. Demonstrates attack techniques and discusses security implications for MacOS and iOS devices.
How Embedded TCP-IP Stacks Breed Critical Vulnerabilities
Explore critical vulnerabilities in embedded TCP/IP stacks, their impact on system security, and techniques for analysis and mitigation in networked embedded systems.
Secret Flaws of In-DRAM RowHammer Mitigations
Unveiling secret flaws in DRAM RowHammer mitigations, exploring Target Row Refresh implementation, and introducing TRRespass: a RowHammer fuzzer for creative hammering patterns to bypass protections.