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D-Box: DMA-enabled Compartmentalization for Embedded Applications
Alejandro Mera, Yi Hui Chen, Ruimin Sun +2
Embedded and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices have seen an increase in adoption in many domains. The security of these devices is of great importance as they are often used to cont…
DICE: Automatic Emulation of DMA Input Channels for Dynamic Firmware Analysis
Alejandro Mera, Bo Feng, Long Lu +1
Microcontroller-based embedded devices are at the core of Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems. The security of these devices is of paramount importance. Among the approac…
SoK: Attacks on Industrial Control Logic and Formal Verification-Based Defenses
Ruimin Sun, Alejandro Mera, Long Lu +1
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) play a critical role in the industrial control systems. Vulnerabilities in PLC programs might lead to attacks causing devastating consequences…
PIM: Scalable and Hardware-independent Firmware Testing via Automatic Peripheral Interface Modeling (extended version)
Bo Feng, Alejandro Mera, Long Lu
Dynamic testing or fuzzing of embedded firmware is severely limited by hardware-dependence and poor scalability, partly contributing to the widespread vulnerable IoT devices. We pr…