The first issue of the ForRES Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of the role of FinFET Technology.

The paper “MmWave for Extended Reality: Open User Mobility Dataset, Characterisation, and Impact on Link Quality” was published in IEEE Communications Magazine. The authors are Alexander Marinsek,  Sam De Kunst, Gilles Callebaut, Lieven De Strycker, Liesbet Van der Perre.

The fifth issue of the DYNAMO Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of the role of crisis communication and the enhancement of organisational resilience.

Paper entitled: “CTI Sharing Practices and MISP Adoption in Finland’s Critical Infrastructure Protection”

Paper entitled: “Measuring Societal Impacts of Cybersecurity”

Paper entitled: “E-EWS-based Governance Framework for Sharing Cyber Threat Intelligence in the Energy Sector”

Paper entitled: “The Social Domain: Resilience of Information-Sharing Networks”

Paper entitled: “Business Model Canvas and Competition to Understand Exploitation of Cybersecurity Project Results”

Joint Optimization of Switching Point and Power Control in Dynamic TDD Cell-Free Massive MIMO by Martin Andersson, Tung T. Vu, Pål Frenger and Erik G. Larsson

Robust Precoding Weights for Downlink D-MIMO in 6G Communications by Ke Wang Helmersson, Pål Frenger and Anders Helmersson

OScar: An ETSI-Compliant C-ITS Stack for Field-Testing with Embedded Hardware Devices

Distributed MIMO Precoding with Routing Constraints in Segmented Fronthaul – academic article by Jale Sadreddini, Omer Haliloglu and Andres Reial

Second issue

The 3rd issue of the newsletter has been released, exploring the results and activities of the project’s first 18 months.

Maneuver Coordination Using V2I to Improve Traffic Efficiency at Intersections

ETSI-Compliant Protection of Connected Vulnerable Road Users: Simulation and Field Trial

CONNECT on Vimeo

The paper “Channel Performance Metrics and Evaluation for XR Head-Mounted Displays with mmWave Arrays” was published in IEEE Transactions on Communications. The authors are Alexander Marinsek, Xuesong Ca, Lieven De Strycker, Fredrik Tufvesson and Liesbet Van der Perre.

Robust Covariance-Based Activity Detection for Massive Access – academic article by Jianan Bai and Erik G. Larsson

Anchor Layout Optimization for Ultrasonic Indoor Positioning Using Swarm Intelligence – academic article by Daan Delabie, Thomas Wilding, Liesbet Van der Perre and Lieven De Strycker

The paper Unveiling the Vulnerability of Oxide-Breakdown-Based PUF was published at IEEE Electron Device Letters. The authors are Pablo Saraza-Canflanca, Ferenc Fodor, Javier Diaz Fortuny,  Benedikt Gierlichs,  Robin Degraeve Ben Kaczer and Ingrid Verbauwhede.

Energy Reduction in Cell-Free Massive MIMO through Fine-Grained Resource Management – academic article by Özlem Tuğfe Demir, Lianet Méndez-Monsanto, Nicola Bastianello, Emma Fitzgerald and Gilles Callebaut

The third issue of the DYNAMO newsletter is now available. Download it to get an overview of the work in the first project period.

Joint Sequential Fronthaul Quantization and Hardware Complexity Reduction in Uplink Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks – academic article by Vida Ranjbar, Robbert Beerten, Marc Moonen and Sofie Pollin

This deliverable provides an initial plan for dissemination and exploitation incl. communication activities and training and will be periodically updated based on the project’s progress. It also constitutes an initial dissemination & communication kit for 6GTandem, as well as the launch of the project website and communication infrastructure in M03.

This project quality plan constitutes a set of project templates and explains the project management, review and internal quality control process, as well as other organizational topics such as meeting organization. It further includes the open science practices within the 6GTandem project. This handbook shall support all partners in their daily work.

This is to inform the data subjects that may have been affected by the crawling operations about the processing carried out as part of the project and enable them to exercise their data protection rights. The responsible partner (controller) is CERTH.

The fourth issue of the DYNAMO Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of the role of ethics in cybersecurity aspects.

Paper entitled: “Implications of GDPR and NIS2 for Cyber Threat Intelligence Exchange in Hospitals”

Paper entitled: “Utilization and Sharing of Cyber Threat Intelligence Produced by Open-Source Intelligence”

Paper entitled: “Utilization and Sharing of Cyber Threat Intelligence Produced by Open-Source Intelligence”

Paper entitled: “Implementation of OSINT for Improving an International Finance Sector Organization’s Cybersecurity”

The paper “Circularly Polarized Sub-THz Antenna Design for Distributed Deployment” was presented at EuCAP 2024. The authors are Yuyan Cao, Maciej Wojnowski and Buon Kiong Lau.

The paper An in-depth security evaluation of the Nintendo DSi gaming console was published at CARDIS 2023. The authors are Pcy Sluys, Lennert Wouters, Benedikt Gierlichs, Ingrid Verbauwhede.

The paper Architectural Mimicry: Innovative Instructions to Efficiently Address Control-Flow Leakage in Data-Oblivious Programs was published at IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy 2024.The authors are Hans Winderix, Márton Bognár, Job Noorman, Lesly-Ann Daniel and Frank Piessens.

D5.2 follows up the D5.1 contributions to deliver the first version of the CONNECT orchestrator and the mechanisms for secure data exchange. The here-in reported work cov- ers the task-offloading logic and the implementation details of the CONNECT orchestartor software. Lastly, the work is completed with the Blockchain architecture and data handling principles to facilitate the CONNECT accountable attestation and monitoring (when combined with the D5.1 claims).

Deliverable D4.2 documents the high-level design of the complete CON- NECT security architecture as developed by Workpackage WP4. Com- pared to D4.1 we refine and add users stories and designs for the Multi- Access Edge Cloud (MEC). We also add detailed cryptographic protocols that implement the trust assessment of the services of CONNECT. Fi- nally, we detail the concepts and interactions for secure migration and up- grade of TEE-protected workloads. This is the technical foundation for Se- cure Task Offloading. The key questions that this deliverable answers are “How can the Multi-access Edge Cloud (MEC) be architected to provide robust security and privacy guarantees?”, “How can cryptography help to remotely assess trust of services while maintaining sound privacy guar- antees?”, and “How can vehicle and edge collaborate while maintaining security?”

This deliverable builds upon D3.1 and describes major build- ing blocks for the standalone trust assessment framework (TAF), the federated TAF and the digital twin version TAF-DT. For the standalone TAF, a fine-grained architecture underlying our current prototype is provided, federated TAF and TAF-DT are described as high-level architectures.

The first issue of the ForRES newsletter is now available. Download it to get an overview of the latest developments within the project.

This deliverable presents the CONNECT dissemination, communication, clustering, standardization, and exploitation activities up to M18. Furthermore, it contains information highlighting open-source contributions and workshop organization activities.

WIP: A Trust Assessment Method for In-Vehicular Networks using Vehicle Risk Assessment

Scheduling of Industrial Control Traffic for Dynamic RAN Slicing with Distributed Massive MIMO – academic article by Emma Fitzgerald and Michał Pióro

Distributed MIMO Measurements for Integrated Communication and Sensing in an Industrial Environment – academic article by by Christian Nelson, Xuhong Li, Aleksei Fedorov, Benjamin Deutschmann and Fredrik Tufvesson

In-vehicle Trust Assessment Framework

Sphinx-in-the-Head: Group Signatures from Symmetric Primitives

Massive Synchrony in Distributed Antenna Systems by Erik G. Larsson from Linköping University

The paper BLUFFS: Bluetooth Forward and Future Secrecy Attacks and Defenses was published at ACM CCS’23 on 26-30 NOV., 2023. The author is Daniele Antonioli.

Paper entitled: “Trust Environment for Cyber-Physical Systems: The DYNAMO Approach”

The third issue of the DYNAMO Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of the 4Rs of Resilience of DYNAMO, the Resilience Cycle and the Resilience Assessment Methodology.

Deliverable D4.1 documents the initial results of Workpackage 4. It speci- fies the core security architecture of CONNECT revolving around the use of HW-based trust anchors for supporting both the continuous trust as- sessment of the CCAM-wide continuum as well as the secure lifecylce management of all comprised devices. D4.1 refines the architecture (com- ponents and flows) presented in D2.1 and puts forth a deteiled description of all interactions and sequence of actions with the underlying Trusted Computing Base for providing node- and data-centric trustworthiness ev- idence. Furthermore, it documents user stories that specify desired fea- tures, and finally outlines the key hierarchy and formalized requirements. This overarching TEE architecture will guide the design of all security pro- tocols and cryptographic mechanisms to be documented in D4.2.

The paper “Impact of array configuration on head-mounted display performance at mmWave bands” is now available for open access on ArXiv. The authors are Alexander Marinsek, Xuesong Cai, Lieven De Strycker, Fredrik Tufvesson and Liesbet Van der Perre.

The 2nd 6GTandem newsletter has been released, which is focused on the current status of the project and future plans.

An Open Dataset Storage Standard for 6G Testbeds has been published by Gilles Callebaut, Michiel Sandra, Christian Nelson, Thomas Wilding, Daan Delabie, Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann, William Tärneberg, Emma Fitzgerald, Liesbet Van der Perre from the 6GTandem consortium. The paper was successfully presented at IEEE CAMA 2023.

D5.1 paves the way to the CONNECT orchestration im- plementation by first defining the task migration/offloading problem and then presenting a comprehensive analysis of the state-of-the-art. Derived insights suggest candidate ap- proaches for the CONNECT implementation. Furthermore, the document explores identity management and proposes verifiable and presentation claims to verify a CONNECT en- tity’s attributes or identity. The involved data model to hold the needed information is finally introduced.

The 2^nd ORSHIN newsletter has been released, which is focused on the main achievements of the first 12 project months and the outlook of what will follow. ORSHIN Newsletter Issue 02

Kees Schot, Aya Fukami: “In-situ Global Ultra Thinning of Live Chip Backside for Digital Forensic and Failure Analysis”

Paper entitled: “Improving the Cybersecurity Awareness of Finnish Podiatry SMEs”

The second issue of the DYNAMO newsletter is now available. Download it to get an overview of the work in the first twelve months of the project.

The paper 6G Radio Testbeds: Requirements, Trends, and Approaches, has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Microwave Magazine’s Wireless Communications Focus Issue by the MTT-S TC-23. The authors are Gilles Callebaut, Liang Liu, Thomas Eriksson, Liesbet Van der Perre, Ove Edfors and Christian Fager.

This deliverable includes information on the dissemination, communication and exploitation activities, as well as on internal and external training activities of the EXFILES project. It is the first report on the communication and dissemination activities of the first 18 project months. It thus contains relevant information about all executed activities up to M18, as well as an updated plan of future activities. The deliverable will be updated and finalized within “D7.6 Final report on dissemination & communication activities” at the project end. 

This document describes deliverable D7.2 “Hands-on training for contributors”. As part of this deliverable, RISCURE has made available (and will continue to enable access for the entire duration of the project) two standard, hands-on online training courses to all EXFILES contributors. 

The second issue of the DYNAMO Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of Cyber Threat Intelligence and what role this discipline has within DYNAMO.

The official leaflet of the ForRES project is available, containing project information, vision, goals of the project and more.

Deliverable D2.1 defines the technical requirements of CONNECT, alongside the specification of the conceptual reference architecture, the functional components, and interfaces between them. It also provides an analysis and point of reference for CONNECT in relation to the use cases and reference scenarios including an analysis of the trust models, that need to be considered for capturing the security and privacy requirements of each of the target CCAM services, and the trusted computing anchors to be further investigated and deployed as part of all actors – both at the MEC and Edge. Its purpose is to define the parameters for the rest of the CONNECT project and provide the necessary input for the design and implementation of all security enablers and models towards the dynamic trust assessment of complex CCAM ecosystems.

This Project Quality Plan constitutes a set of project templates and explanations on the project management process, review process, quality checks and meeting organisation, which are communicated to all partners. It further includes the risk assessment plan and shows how potential risks are assessed and mitigated.

Inaugural newsletter

SAVE THE DATE and reserve your place in the first official DYNAMO webinar. Click on the link and get more information about what to expect at the webinar.

Hash-based Direct Anonymous Attestation

Edge-assisted ML-aided Uncertainty-aware Vehicle Collision Avoidance at Urban Intersections

Julien Maillard, Thomas Hiscock, Maxime Lecomte, Christophe Clavier: “Side-Channel Disassembly on a System-on-Chip: A Practical Feasibility Study”

Deliverable 3.1 presents initial work towards the Trust Asssessment Framework (TAF). It includes definition of core terminology for trust assessment, a state of the art analysis and requirements engineering which motivates our decision for a TAF based on Subjective Logic. Subsequently, an ap-proach to trust modeling is described including a methodol- ogy for deriving trust relationships and examples for such trust relationships and trust sources are given based on the four CONNECT use case. Finally, a high-level architecture of the TAF is presented and first considerations for the evaluation of the TAF are described.

CONNECT Fact Sheet 2: TRUSTWORTHINESS
Authors: Chirag Arora, Adam Henschke

ZEKRA: Zero-Knowledge Control-Flow Attestation (pre-camera version Open Access)

The first issue of the DYNAMO Factsheet series is now available. Download it to get an overview of Business Continuity Management and what role this discipline has within DYNAMO.

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) — Security, Privacy, Trust, and Reputation Management for Connected Vehicles
Authors: A. Drobot, T. Zhang, M. L. Buonarosa, F. Kargl, S. Schwinke and B. Sikdar

The paper MicroProfiler: Principled Side-Channel Mitigation through Microarchitectural Profiling was published at Euro SP23 on July 3-7 2023. The authors are Marton Bognar, Hans Winderix, Jo Van Bulck, Frank Piessens

It is time for advanced digital investigation to tackle the cybercrime of electronic devices. Find out more in the official announcement letter of ForRES project.

Paper entitled: “A Lens to Examine Communication Through Business Continuity Management” (p. 205-216)

Paper entitled: “Academic publications create sustainable knowledge in funded projects” (p. 223-232)

Securing Cooperative Intersection Management through Subjective Trust Networks
Authors: Frank Kargl, Nataša Trkulja, Artur Hermann, Florian Sommer, Anderson Ramon Ferraz de Lucena, Alexander Kiening, Sergej Japs

Eyes and Ears for the Car of the Future

The Car2TERA project launched in 2019 has successfully concluded, advancing smart electronic sensor systems.

Paper entitled: “Governance and Management Information System for Cybersecurity Centres and Competence hubs”

The paper E-Spoofer: Attacking and Defending Xiaomi Electric Scooter Ecosystem was published at WiSec’23 on 31^st May 2023. The authors are Marco Casagrande, Riccardo Cestaro, Eleonora Losiouk, Mauro Conti and Daniele Antonioli.

S-LDM: Server Local Dynamic Map for 5G-based Centralized Enhanced Collective Perception

The 1st 6GTandem newsletter has been released, which is focused on the results of the first 4 project months.

The paper PROSPECT: Provably Secure Speculation for the Constant-Time Policy was published at USENIX Security’23 on 1^st February 2023. The authors are Lesly-Ann Daniel, Marton Bognar, Job Noorman, Sébastien Bardin, Tamara Rezk and Frank Piessens.

Comparative Evaluation of PKI and DAA-Based Architectures for V2X Communication Security
Authors: A. Angelogianni I. Krontiris, and T. Giannetsos

The paper Lightweight Countermeasures Against Original Linear Code Extraction Attacks on a RISC-V Core was published at HOST on 1^st-3^rd May 2023. The authors are Théophile Gousselot, Olivier Thomas, Jean-Max Dutertre, Olivier Potin and Jean-Baptiste Rigaud.

The first issue of the DYNAMO newsletter is now available. Download it to get an overview of the work in the first six months of the project.

The paper Low-Cost First-Order Secure Boolean Masking in Glitchy Hardware was published at the DATE 2023 on 19th April 2023. The authors are Dilip Kumar S V, Josep Balasch, Benedikt Gierlichs and Ingrid Verbauwhede.

The paper Efficient attack-surface exploration for electromagnetic fault injection was published at the COSADE 2023 on 4th April 2023. The authors are Daniele Antonio Carta, Vittorio Zaccaria, Gabriele Quagliarella and Maria Chiara Molteni.

Paper entitled “Beyond 100-Gbps Polymer Microwave Fiber Communication Link at D-Band”

The 4th and final newsletter of the Car2TERA H2020 project contains an reflection on the project, insights on the demonstrators, latest publications and dissemination activities.

The 1st ORSHIN newsletter has been released, which is focused on the results of the first 6 project months.

CONNECT Fact Sheet 1: TRUST ASSESSMENT
Authors: Ana Petrovska, Natasa Trukulja, Artur Hermann, Frank Kargl

Paper entitled “A Wideband High-Gain Power Amplifier Operating in the D Band”

High-speed data links based on polymer microwave fiber (PMF) for 5G evolution and 6G radio systems by Yinggang Li (Ericsson)

This deliverable presents the CONNECT communication kit including the project’s visual identity as well as communication and dissemination material to be used within the project. Furthermore, a detailed standardization plan is documented constituting a guideline for the liaison and further dissemination of the CONNECT project to external target groups and related standardization working groups. A timeline of short- and long-term dissemination activities is presented.

Paper entitled: “Managing Variable Cyber Environments with Organizational Foresight and Resilience Thinking”

Poster entitled Design of 130-290 GHz rectangular polymer fibers for high-speed data links

The official DYNAMO Elevator Pitch is now available. Download it to get an overview of the most important information about the project.

Paper entitled “Design of an Amplitude-Tapered Corporate-Feed Slot Array Antenna with Reduced Side-Lobe Level for Silicon Micromachining”

On 8th February 2023 the 6GTandem technical lead, Parisa Aghdam from Ericsson AB, presented the Horizon Europe 6GTandem project within the ETSI Research Conference.

The official leaflet of the Horizon Europe project “6GTandem” is available, containing project information, mission, vision and goals of the project.

Paper entitled “ACCURATE RCS IMAGING OF CAR IN-CABIN OBJECTS AT SUB-THZ FREQUENCIES”.

Paper entitled “Radar Cross-Section Characterization of the Car In-Cabin Environment at Sub-THz Frequencies”.

Paper entitled “Concept analysis of a frequency-sweeping delta/ sigma beam-switching radar using machine learning”

FANJAS, Clément, GAINE, Clément, ABOULKASSIMI, Driss, PONTIÉ, Simon, POTIN, Olivier: “Combined Fault Injection and Real-Time Side-Channel Analysis for Android Secure-Boot Bypassing”

Clément Fanjas , Clément Gaine , Driss Aboulkassimi, Simon Pontié and Olivier Potin: “Real-Time Frequency Detection to Synchronize Fault Injection on System-on-Chip”

The Horizon Europe project “6GTandem” will co-design novel dual-frequency operation at sub-10 GHz and sub-THz frequencies and a new highly integrated and distributed radio transceiver architecture to deliver high-performance energy efficient services for future 6G applications.

An ML-Aided Reinforcement Learning Approach for Challenging Vehicle Maneuvers
Authors: Dinesh Cyril Selvaraj, Shailesh Hegde, Nicola Amati, Francesco Deflorio and Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

The official DYNAMO Project Leaflet is now available. Download to get more information about the project, the involved partners, the mission, the vision and the goal of DYNAMO.

SHEPHERD, Carlton, SEMAL Benjamin, MARKANTONAKIS: “Investigating Black-Box Function Recognition Using Hardware Performance Counters”

The official leaflet of the horizonEU project “CONNECT” is available, containing project information, mission, vision and goals of the project.

The official leaflet of the ORSHIN project is available, containing project information, mission, vision and goals of the project.

We are happy to announce that under the technical leadership of CERTH in Greece, the coordination of Frauenhofer EMI in Germany with the support of the Austrian based private research company Technikon, the scientists of the consortium are engaged in a EC funded research project entitled “Dynamic Resilience Assessment Method including combined Business Continuity Management and Cyber Threat Intelligence solution for Critical Sectors” or DYNAMO. In this three-year project, 15 partners from ten different countries will work to address the problem of cyber threats in critical sectors such as health, energy and transportation.

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SHEPHERD, Carlton, KALBANTNER, Jan, SEMAL, Benjamin, MARKANTONAKIS, Konstantinos: “A Side-channel Analysis of Sensor Multiplexing for Covert Channels and Application Fingerprinting on Mobile Devices”

SHEPHERD, Carlton, MARKANTONAKIS, Konstantinos, et JALOYAN, Georges-Axel: “LIRA-V: Lightweight remote attestation for constrained RISC-V devices”

SHEPHERD, Carlton, MARKANTONAKIS, Konstantinos, VAN HEIJNINGEN, Nico, et al: “Physical fault injection and side-channel attacks on mobile devices: A comprehensive analysis”