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BIAS + KNOB attack against Bluetooth: All the WAC talks are available on YouTube

I’m glad to serve as a TPC member for ACM AsiaCCS 2021. The first round of submission deadline is approaching (21 August 2020), indeed submit your great research works! Those are the important dates:

I’m glad to give a talk about the KNOB and BIAS attacks on Bluetooth at the third Workshop on Attacks in Cryptography (WAC) co-located with CRYPTO 2020. The Workshop will be held online on Zoom the 16th of August 2020, and my talk will be from 13:20 to 14:00 (EDT) in the Attacks on Standards session (session IV).

The Network and System Security (NSS) 2020 conference paper submission deadline has been extended to 15 September 2020 (Anywhere on Earth) Please submit your research work! You can find more information in the NSS website and specifically in the CFP section.

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I’m glad to serve as a TPC member and publicity co-chair for the 14th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS). The conference focuses on network and system security and welcomes papers from a broad range of topics including:

Here are the slides and the recording of our hardwear.io talk titled From Bluetooth Standard to Standard-Compliant 0-days:

Our new paper Key Negotiation Downgrade Attacks on Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy will appear in the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security. Our paper extends our previous work on the KNOB attack on Bluetooth BR/EDR to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), presents an updated evaluation of the KNOB attack for Bluetooth BR/EDR and discusses some of the countermeasures put in place by vendors such as Google and Apple after the disclosure of the KNOB attack and the amendment of the Bluetooth standard.

Our paper Bluetooth Impersonation AttackS (BIAS) will be presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P) 2020. More information are available in the BIAS website

I’m glad to give a talk titled From the Bluetooth Standard to Standard Compliant 0-days together with Mathias Payer at the virtual edition of Hardwear.io 2020. Our talk covers, among others, the technical details behind the Key Negotiation Of Bluetooth (KNOB) attack on Bluetooth BR/EDR, its extension to BLE, and the countermeasures adopted by vendors, such as Google and Apple, to mitigate the KNOB attacks.