Anti-virus vendors are confronted with a multitude of potentially malicious samples today.
Receiving thousands of new samples every day is not uncommon. The signatures that …

Information flow tracking (IFT) is a fundamental computer security technique used to
understand how information moves through a computing system. Hardware IFT techniques …

Speculative execution attacks present an enormous security threat, capable of reading
arbitrary program data under malicious speculation, and later exfiltrating that data over …

Dynamic data flow tracking (DFT) deals with tagging and tracking data of interest as they
propagate during program execution. DFT has been repeatedly implemented by a variety of …

This paper describes context-sensitive fencing (CSF), a microcode-level defense against
multiple variants of Spectre. CSF leverages the ability to dynamically alter the decoding of …

Information Flow Tracking (IFT) provides a formal methodology for modeling and reasoning
about security properties related to integrity, confidentiality, and logical side channel …

For many mission-critical tasks, tight guarantees on the flow of information are desirable, for
example, when handling important cryptographic keys or sensitive financial data. We …

Memory corruption vulnerabilities are the root cause of many modern attacks. Existing
defense mechanisms are inadequate; in general, the software-based approaches are not …

Embedded computing devices are used on a large scale in the emerging internet of things
(IoT). However, their wide deployment raises the incentive for attackers to target these …

Out-of-order execution and speculative execution are among the biggest contributors to
performance and efficiency of modern processors. However, they are inconsiderate, leaking …