Hardware Performance Counters (HPCs) have been available in processors for more than a
decade. These counters can be used to monitor and measure events that occur at the CPU …

We present a kernel-level infrastructure that allows systemwide detection of malicious
applications attempting to exploit cache-based side-channel attacks to break the process …

Cache Side-Channel Attacks (CSCAs) have been haunting most processor architectures for
decades now. Existing approaches to mitigation of such attacks have certain drawbacks …

Obtaining detailed software execution information via hardware performance counters is a
powerful analysis technique. The performance counters provide an effective method to …

Historically, the memory hierarchy has been introduced and equipped with multiple caches
to hide the memory's high latency and overcome the performance gap between processors …

We are living in a hot period in which the intense competition among chipmakers is turning
into an explosion of new hardware-level features. Among the innovations, modern …