Hacking and protecting the IoT ecosystem: hardware security and key attacks you should know. 🗜️🪚🩻🐉👷🏼

An international group of academic researchers shared earlier this year their comprehensive survey of modern hardware security threats in the rapidly expanding IoT ecosystem.

29 pages of overview that will be very practical and insightful for you, especially if hardware security, fault injection attacks, PUFs and PReFs, hardware Trojans, and TEEs are not your everyday business.

For the record:

🌟 PUFs are part of the hardware root of trust.

🌟 PReFs allow multiple devices to securely derive correlated cryptographic material

🌟 TEE refers to Trusted Execution Environments in ARM.

🌟 Fault injection is a type of attack in which an attacker uses various techniques to force a CPU into exploitable erroneous states.

If you’re looking for a relatively short and well-structured introduction to hardware security in IoT, this paper can be a great start.

More details:

Hardware Security in the Connected World [PDF] https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/widm.70034