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The Digital Security Department of EURECOM invites applications for a tenured position at the Assistant Professor level in the area of Digital Security. Starting date: ASAP. Full info here. Please spread the word 😄 !

The Digital Security Department of EURECOM invites applications for a tenured position at the Assistant Professor level in the area of Digital Security. Full info here. Please spread the word 😄 !

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!

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.

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.

Since January 2020 we’ve been working on a security analysis of Bluetooth cross-transport key-derivation (CTKD). In May 2020 we reported to the Bluetooth SIG a set of CTKD vulnerabilities and related attacks (i.

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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 The BIAS code will be also uploaded soon!