The 2015 ARES Conference (the Int’l Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security), is happening in France later this month. There’s a variety of interesting talks on the schedule: focusing on firmware security, a few jump out, and I’m sure I’ve missed a bunch:

Cold Boot Attacks on DDR2 and DDR3 SDRAM
Simon Lindenlauf, Hans Höfken, Marko Schuba

Hardware Security Evaluation Using Assurance Case Models
Henrique Kawakami, Roberto Gallo, Ricardo Dahab, Erick Nascimento

Virtual Machine Introspection_c_ Techniques and Applications
Yacine Hebbal, Sylvie Laniepce, Jean-Marc Menaud

A Lightweight Framework for Cold Boot Based Forensics on Mobile Devices
Benjamin Taubmann, Manuel Huber, Sascha Wessel, Lukas Heim, Hans Peter Reiser, Georg Sigl

Don’t brick your car: Firmware confidentiality and rollback for vehicles
Hafizah Mansor, Konstantinos Markantonakis, Raja Naeem Akram, Keith Mayes

Watch what you wear: preliminary forensic analysis of smart watches
Ibrahim Baggili, Kyle Anthony, Jeff Oduru, Frank Breitinger, Glenn McGee

Physically Secure Code and Data Storage in Autonomously Booting Systems
Johannes Götzfried, Johannes Hampel, Tilo Müller

Complexity Estimates of a SHA-1 Near-Collision Attack for GPU and FPGA
Stefan Gradinger, Bernhard Greslehner-Nimmervoll, Jürgen Fuß, Robert Kolmhofer