Covert channel communication as an emerging security threat in 2.5 d/3d integrated systems

I Miketic, K Dhananjay, E Salman - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this paper, first, a broad overview of existing covert channel communication-based
security attacks is provided. Such covert channels establish a communication link between …

High bandwidth thermal covert channel in 3-d-integrated multicore processors

K Dhananjay, VF Pavlidis, AK Coskun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exploiting thermal coupling among the cores of a processor to secretly communicate
sensitive information is a serious threat in mobile, desktop, and server platforms. Existing …

Balancing Security and Efficiency: System-Informed Mitigation of Power-Based Covert Channels

J González-Gómez, MB Sikal, H Khdr… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the digital landscape continues to evolve, the security of computing systems has become
a critical concern. Power-based covert channels (eg, thermal covert channel s (TCCs)), a …

Information-theoretic perspective to thermal covert channels

I Miketic, K Yethiraj, E Salman - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Covert communication channels are a significant security threat where the host computer's
security policy is bypassed to establish a communication link that can leak sensitive data …

Combating Stealthy Thermal Covert Channel Attack With Its Thermal Signal Transmitted in Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

X Wang, S Wang, Y Jiang, AK Singh… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many-core systems are susceptible to attacks launched by thermal covert channel (TCC)
attacks. Detection of TCC attacks often relies on the use of threshold-based approaches or …

MeMoir: A Software-Driven Covert Channel based on Memory Usage

J Gonzalez-Gomez, JA Ibarra-Campos… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Covert channel attacks have been continuously studied as severe threats to modern
computing systems. Software-based covert channels are a typically hard-to-detect branch of …

Enhanced Detection of Thermal Covert Channel Attacks in Multicore Processors

K Dhananjay, VF Pavlidis, AK Coskun… - … Symposium on Quality …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Information leakage through temperature based covert channels is a growing threat in
modern multicore processors. Thus, accurately detecting the presence of such thermal …

Detecting and Mitigating Hardware Security Attacks in Emerging Technologies and Applications

K Dhananjay - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Starting from the famous Van Eck Phreaking attack (performed in 1985) that picks up
electromagnetic emissions for spying on a computing device to the more recent Spectre and …

Detection and Defense Against Thermal and Timing Covert Channel Attacks in Multi-Core Systems

P Rahimi, AK Singh, X Wang, S Pourmoafi - Available at SSRN 4882264 - papers.ssrn.com
As interest in multi-core systems grows, so does the potential for information leakage
throughcovert channel communication. Covert channel attacks pose a severe threat …