Invited Talk, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
Invited talk covering the dynamic frequency side-channel attack (DF-SCA) paradigm, its extension to fingerprinting modern sandbox environments, and systematic techniques for evading machine learning-based microarchitectural attack detectors. The talk also discussed ongoing work on LLM-assisted security evaluation frameworks.
Poster Presentation, CEAB, Iowa Cyber Hub, Iowa, USA
Poster presentation at the CEAB event organized by the Iowa Cyber Hub, demonstrating the practical implications of dynamic frequency side-channel attacks and highlighting the need for hardware-aware security practices.
Poster Presentation, Youth Cyber Summit, Iowa Cyber Hub, Iowa, USA
Poster presentation at the Youth Cyber Summit organized by the Iowa Cyber Hub, engaging high school and undergraduate students in understanding how hardware-level side-channel attacks work and why they matter for real-world security.
Invited Talk, CAE-R Symposium, St. Louis, MO, USA
Invited talk at the CAE-R (Center of Academic Excellence in Research) Symposium, presenting an overview of dynamic frequency side-channel attacks across modern computing environments including desktops, cloud VMs, and serverless platforms. The talk highlighted both attack capabilities and detection/mitigation strategies.
Invited Talk, 2024 IEEE 9th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), Vienna, Austria
Conference presentation at IEEE EuroS&P 2024, presenting the paper “Dynamic Frequency-Based Fingerprinting Attacks against Modern Sandbox Environments.” The talk demonstrated how CPU dynamic frequency scaling can be exploited to fingerprint JavaScript workloads executing inside V8 and Cloudflare Workers sandbox environments, and discussed implications for serverless cloud security.
Poster Presentation, CAE-R Symposium, St. Louis, MO, USA
Poster presentation at the CAE-R Symposium showcasing the dynamic frequency-based fingerprinting attack against modern sandbox environments, demonstrating the practical threat to serverless computing infrastructure.
Invited Talk, 38th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'22), Austin, TX, USA
Conference presentation at ACSAC 2022, presenting the paper “DF-SCA: Dynamic Frequency Side Channel Attacks are Practical.” The talk introduced the dynamic frequency side channel, demonstrated its practicality for keystroke inference and website fingerprinting across unprivileged settings, and discussed implications across Intel, AMD, and ARM platforms.
Invited Talk, NVIDIA, Remote
Invited talk at NVIDIA presenting the dynamic frequency side-channel attack research, discussing its implications for GPU and heterogeneous computing security and potential mitigation strategies from a hardware design perspective.