Month: June 2017

Dhalion: self-regulating stream processing in Heron

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Dhalion: Self-regulating stream processing in Heron Floratou et al., VLDB 2017 Dhalion follows on nicely from yesterday's paper looking at the modular architecture of Heron, and aims to reduce the "complexity of configuring, managing, and deploying" streaming applications. In particular, streaming applications deployed as Heron topologies, although the authors are keen to point out the ... Continue Reading

An experimental security analysis of an industrial robot controller

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An experimental security analysis of an industrial robot controller Quarta et al., IEEE Security and Privacy 2017 This is an industrial robot: The International Federation of Robotics forecasts that, by 2018, approximately 1.3 million industrial robot units will be employed in factories globally, and the international market value for "robotized" systems is approximately 32 billion ... Continue Reading

The password reset MitM attack

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The password reset MitM attack Gelernter et al., IEEE Security and Privacy 2017 The Password Reset Man-in-the-Middle (PRMitM) attack is really very simple, but that doesn't mean it's not dangerous. It involves persuading the user to sign-up for an account for some service under the attacker's control (maybe there's an enticing free download for example), ... Continue Reading

Hardware is the new software

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Hardware is the new software Baumann, HotOS'17 This is a very readable short paper that sheds an interesting light on what's been happening with the Intel x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) of late. We're seeing a sharp rise in the number and complexity of extensions, with some interesting implications for systems researchers (and for Intel!). ... Continue Reading