EE515: Security of Emerging Systems

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9/1/2025

• Topic: Course Introduction & Introduction to Security Engineering
• Presenter: Yongdae Kim
• Slides: 01.pdf
• Videos: class_0901.mp4
• Reading List: "What is Security Engineering?" by Ross Anderson
  

9/3/2025

• Topic: Course Introduction & Introduction to Security Engineering
• Presenter: Yongdae Kim
• Videos:
• Reading List: "What is Security Engineering?" by Ross Anderson
  
• Videos: class_0903.mp4

9/8/2025

• Topic: Cryptography in a Nutshell
• Presenter: Yongdae Kim
• Slides:
• Videos: class_0908.mp4
• Reading List: "Overview of Cryptography" in Handbook of Applied Cryptography
  

9/10/2025

• Topic: Cryptography in a Nutshell (2)
• Presenter: Yongdae Kim
• Videos: class_0910.mp4
• Reading List: "Overview of Cryptography" in Handbook of Applied Cryptography
  

9/15/2025

• Topic: Access Control in a Nutshell (3)
• Presenter: Yongdae Kim
• Videos: class_0915.mp4
• Reading List: "Access Control" by Ross Anderson
  

9/17/2025

• Topic: How to Think about Security of New (Emerging) Systems?
• Presenter: Yongdae Kim
• Slides: 02.pdf
• Videos: class_0917.mp4

9/22/2025

• Topic: Software Engineering Failures and Malpractices
• Assignment: Reading Report
• Presenter: Yongdae Kim
• Slides: VotingAutomobile.pdf
• Videos: class_0922.mp4
• Reading List:
• Yongdae Kim A. Feldman, J. Halderman, and E. Felten, "Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine", EVT'07
• R1/R2 Yongdae Kim S. Checkoway, D. McCoy, B. Kantor, D. Anderson, H. Shacham, S. Savage, K. Koscher, A. Czeskis, F. Roesner, and T. Kohno, "Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces", USENIX Sec'11

9/24/2025

• Topic: Medical Devices
• Assignment: Reading Report
• Presenter: Yongdae Kim
• Slides: Medical.pdf
• Videos: class_0924.mp4
• Reading List:
• Yongdae Kim D. Halperin, T. Heydt-Benjamin, B. Ransford, S. Clark, B. Defend, W. Morgan, K. Fu, T. Kohno, and W.Maisel, "Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses", IEEE SP'08
  
• R1/R2 Yongdae Kim D. Foo Kune, J. Backes, S. Clark, D. Kramer, M. Reynolds, K. Fu, Y. Kim, and W. Xu, "Ghost Talk: Mitigating EMI Signal Injection Attacks against Analog Sensors" , IEEE SP'13

9/29/2025

• Topic: Cellular (1)
• Assignment: Reading Report
• Slides:
• Videos:
• Reading List:
• R1/R2 Yongdae Kim H. Kim, J. Lee, E. Lee, and Y. Kim, "Touching the Untouchables: Dynamic Security Analysis of the LTE Control Plane", IEEE SP'19

10/1/2025

• Topic: Special Topic (Cellular Security)
• Slides:
• Videos:
• Reading List:

10/6/2025 (No class: 추석)

• No class

10/8/2025 (No class: 대체공휴일)

• No class

10/13/2025

• Topic: Cellular (2)
• Assignment: Reading Report
• Slides:
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• Reading List:
  • Hoang Dinh Tuan@Syssec T. Hoang, C. Park, M. Son, T. Oh, S. Bae, J. Ahn, B. Oh, and Y. Kim, "LTESniffer: An Open-source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper", WISEC'23
    
  • Hoang Dinh Tuan@Syssec T. Hoang, T. Oh, C. Park, I Yun, and Y. Kim, "LLFuzz: An Over-the-Air Dynamic Testing Framework for Cellular Baseband Lower Layers", USENIX Sec'25
    

10/15/2025

• Topic: Special Topic (How to write top-tier security conference papers?)
• Slides:
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• Reading List:

10/20/2025 (Midterm Exam Period)

• No class

10/22/2025 (Midterm Exam Period)

• No class

10/27/2025

• Topic: Cellular (3)
• Assignment: Reading Report
• Slides:
• Videos:
• Reading List:
  • R1 DE SOUSA Raphaël H. Yang, S. Bae, M. Son, H. Kim, S. Kim, and Y. Kim, "Hiding in Plain Signal: Physical Signal Overshadowing Attack on LTE", USENIX Sec'19
    
  • R2 Dongmin Lee T. Oh, S. Bae, J. Ahn, Y. Lee, D. T. Hoang, M. Kang, N. Tippenhauer, and Y. Kim, "Enabling Physical Localization of Uncooperative Cellular Devices", MobiCom'24
    

10/29/2025

• Topic: Cellular (4)
• Assignment: Reading Report
• Slides:
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• Reading List:
  • Cheoljun Park@Syssec C. Park, S. Bae, B. Oh, J. Lee, E. Lee, I. Yun, and Y. Kim, "DoLTEst: In-depth Downlink Negative Testing Framework for LTE Devices", USENIX Sec'22
    

11/3/2025

• Topic: cellular (5) + LLM
• Slides:
• Assignment: Reading Report
• Videos:
• Reading List:
  • R1 Hazem Issa Ali Ranjbar, Tianchang Yang, Kai Tu, Saaman Khalilollahi, and Syed Rafiul Hussain, "Stateful Analysis and Fuzzing of Commercial Baseband Firmware", IEEE SP'25
    
  • R2 Ziho Shin W. Go, H. Kim, A. Oh, and Y. Kim, "XDAC: XAI-Driven Detection and Attribution of LLM-Generated News Comments in Korean", ACL'25
    

11/5/2025

• Topic: LLM Jailbreaking
• Slides:
• Videos:
• Reading List:
  • R1 Yongbi Son Z. Yu, X. Liu, S. Liang, Z. Cameron, C. Xiao, and N. Zhang, "Don't Listen To Me: Understanding and Exploring Jailbreak Prompts of Large Language Models", USENIX Sec'24
    
  • R2 Jihye Lee A. Zou, Z. Wang, N Carlini, M. Nasr, J. Kolter, and M. Fredrikson, "Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attackson Aligned Language Models"
    

11/10/2025

• Topic: LLM-based Testing (1)
• Assignment: Reading Report
• Slides:
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• Reading List:
  • R1 Juchang Lee CS. Xia, M. Paltenghi, J. L. Tian, M. Pradel, and L. Zhang, "Fuzz4All: Universal Fuzzing with Large Language Models", ICSE'24
    
  • R2 Gunhee Ahn A. Gervais, and L. Zhou, "AI Agent Smart Contract Exploit Generation"
    

11/12/2025

• Topic: LLM-based Testing (2)
• Assignment: Reading Report
• Slides:
• Videos:
• Reading List:
  • R1 Junghoon Cho R. Meng, M. Mirchev, M. Bohme, and A. Roychoudhury, "Large Language Model guided Protocol Fuzzing", NDSS'24
    
  • R2 Juhyun Song X. Ma, L. Luo. , and Q. Zeng, "From One Thousand Pages of Specification to Unveiling Hidden Bugs: Large Language Model Assisted Fuzzing of Matter IoT Devices", USENIX Sec'24
    

11/17/2025

• Topic: Automated Driving System (1)
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• Reading List:
  • Yongdae Kim H. Shin, D. Kim, Y. Kwon, and Y. Kim, "Illusion and Dazzle: Adversarial Optical Channel Exploits against Lidars for Automotive Applications.", CHES'17
    

11/19/2025

• Topic: Automated Driving System (2)
• Assignment: Reading Report
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• Reading List:
  • R1 Laora Eveline Josette Beaudoin P. Jing, Q. Tang, Y. Du, L. Xue, X. Luo, T. Wang, and S. Wu, "Too good to be safe: Tricking lane detection in autonomous driving with crafted perturbations", USENIX Security'21
    
  • R2 Maximilian Meier Z. Wan, J. Shen, J. Chuang, X. Xia, J. Garcia, J. Ma, and Q. A. Chen, "Too Afraid to Drive: Systematic Discovery of Semantic DoS Vulnerability in Autonomous Driving Planning under Physical-World Attacks", NDSS '22
    

11/24/2025

• Topic: Drone (1)
• Slides:
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• Reading List:
  • Yongdae Kim Y. Son, H. Shin, D. Kim, Y. Park, J. Noh, K. Choi, J. Choi, and Y. Kim, "Rocking Drones with Intentional Sound Noise on Gyroscopic Sensors", USENIX Sec'15
    

11/26/2025

• Topic: Drone (2)
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• Assignment: Reading Report
• Reading List:
  • R1 Alexander Taniel Vieres J. Jang*, M. Cho*, J. Kim, D. Kim, and Y. Kim, "Paralyzing Drones via EMI Signal Injection on Sensory Communication Channels", NDSS '23
    
  • R2 Minwoo Jeong N. Schiller, M. Chlosta, M. Schloegel, N. Bars, T. Eisenhofer, T. Scharnowski, F. Domke, L. Schönherr, and T. Holz, "Drone Security and the Mysterious Case of DJI's DroneID.", NDSS '23
    

12/1/2025

• Topic: Drone (3)
• Slides:
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• Assignment: Reading Report
• Reading List:
  • R1 Dongjin Seo J. Noh, Y. Kwon, Y. Son, H. Shin, D. Kim, J. Choi, and Y. Kim, "Tractor beam: Safe-hijacking of consumer drones with adaptive GPS spoofing", TOPS'19
    
  • R2 Zwe Myint Mo T. Kim, C. H. Kim, J. Rhee, F. Fei, Z. Tu, G. Walkup, and D. Xu, "RVFuzzer: Finding Input Validation Bugs in Robotic Vehicles through Control-Guided Testing", USENIX Sec'19
    

12/3/2025

• Topic: Machine Learning
• Slides:
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• Assignment: Reading Report
• Reading List:
  • R1 Antoni Tenreiro López Y. Chen, X. Yuan, J. Zhang, Y. Zhao, S. Zhang, K. Chen, and X. Wang, "Devil's whisper: A general approach for physical adversarial attacks against commercial black-box speech recognition devices.", USENIX Sec'20
    
  • R2 Doyeon Jeon F. Tramèr, F. Zhang, A. Juels, M. K. Reiter, and T. Ristenpart, "Stealing machine learning models via prediction APIs", USENIX Sec'16
    

12/8/2025

• Topic: Satellite
• Slides:
• Assignment: Reading Report
• Reading List:
  • R1 Pham Quang Huy W. Liu, Y. Li, H. Li, Y. Chen, Y. Wang, J. Lan, J. Wu, Q. Wu, J. Liu, and Z. Lai, "The Dark Side of Scale: Insecurity of Direct-to-Cell Satellite Mega-Constellations", IEEE SP'24
    
  • R2 Andrei George-Matei E. Jedermann, M. Strohmeier, V. Lenders, and J. Schmitt, "Record: A Reception-Only Region Determination Attack on LEO Satellite Users", USENIX Sec'24
    

12/10/2025

• Topic: VR/AR
• Assignment: Reading Report
• Reading List:
  • R1 Jehong Jang I. Martinovic, D. Davies, M. Frank, D. Perito, T. Ros, and D. Song, "On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain-Computer Interfaces", USENIX Sec'12
    
  • R2 Adrian Wireklint Y. Zhang, C. Slocum, J. Chen, and N. Abu-Ghazaleh, "It's all in your head (set): Side-channel attacks on ar/vr systems.", USENIX Sec'23
    

12/15/2025 (Final Exam Period)

• No Class: Final Exam

12/17/2025 (Final Exam Period)

• No Class: Final Exam

12/19/2025

• Final presentation