News

Starting at EURECOM

It is my pleasure to announce that since 1st of June I’ve started my new adventure with EURECOM and the System Security Group (S3).

I’m thrilled and honored to have joined a team of talented and diverse people, and I’m looking forward give my contribution!

CFP for Hardwear.io USA 2021 is Open (Tips and Tricks)

Last year I had the pleasure to give a talk about critical and standard-compliant Bluetooth flaws at the virtual edition of Hardwear.io 2020.

The organizers recently opened the call-for-papers (CFP) for Hardwear.io USA 2021 and asked me to share my take on why you would want to submit your work to Hardwear.io and few tips and tricks to improve the quality of your presentation. What follow are some random and personal thoughts that might be useful for somebody and might overlap with what is already suggested in the CFP 😄

Joining EURECOM S3 as an Assistant Professor in June 2021

Starting from June 2021, I will join EURECOM System Security Group (S3) as an Assistant Professor. I will keep doing research on the security of wireless systems, mobile/embedded systems, and (industrial) internet of things. I will also teach the fabulous Mobile Systems and Smartphone Security (MOBISEC) course, created by Yanick Fratantonio, starting from Sept 2021.

Tutor Island: Matematica & Codice

Condivido con piacere Tutor Island il nuovo canale YouTube del mio amico e collega Paolo. Su questo canale potrete trovare tutorial in Italiano (e prossimamente anche in Inglese) su argomenti matematici, informatici e ingegneristici. Per esempio linko qui sotto una playlist con un corso per ingegneri che vogliono programmare in MATLAB/Octave:

Slides and video from our hardwear.io 2020 talk

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

Key Negotiation Downgrade Attacks on Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy

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.