Digitization has been rapidly integrated with manufacturing industries and critical
infrastructure to increase efficiency, productivity, and reduce wastefulness, a transition being …

In recent years, security researchers have shifted their attentions to the underlying
processors' architecture and proposed Hardware-Based Malware Detection (HMD) …

Critical infrastructure components nowadays use microprocessor-based embedded control
systems. It is often infeasible, however, to employ the same level of security measures used …

Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) network-enabled embedded devices are usually controlled
by vendor firmware to perform integral functions in our daily lives. For example, wireless …

The specific goals in this thesis are to investigate weaknesses on the smartphone devices,
which leave it vulnerable to attacks by malicious applications, and to develop proficient …

A BadUSB is a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device (usually a mass storage device) whose
firmware has been modified so as to spoof itself as another device (such as a keyboard) in …

Many security problems in smartphones and other smart devices are approached from an
anomaly detection perspective in which the main goal reduces to identifying anomalous …

With the growing deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in diverse domains, malware
authors have started using these devices as attack vectors for distributed attacks targeting …

Determining a computer's identity is a challenge of critical importance to a forensics
investigator. However, relay and impersonation attacks can defeat even computers that …

In this study, we investigate the feasibility of using an anomaly-based detection scheme that
utilizes information collected from hardware performance counters at runtime to detect data …