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Application Contacts Mike Nazareth, mikenaz@eng.ufl.edu Brittany Boyer, brittany.boyer@ufl.edu Program Contacts Professor Navid Asadi, nasadi@ece.ufl.edu Professor Mark Tehranipoor, tehranipoor@ece.ufl.edu Logistical Questions Amanda Moscrip, amosc989@ufl.edu Travel Questions Patti Moore, patti@ece.ufl.edu

                                   Application Contacts                      -Mike Nazareth, mikenaz@eng.ufl.edu                      -Brittany Boyer, brittany.boyer@ufl.edu                         […]

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Registration Program Accommodations Home Page Sponsorship Contact Us The 2020 FICS Research Conference on Cybersecurity will be held at the University of Florida’s Straughn Professional Development Center on Tuesday, March 24th, and Wednesday, March 25th, 2020. Directions: From I-75 Exit #384 (State Road 24 / Archer Road) Use the left 3 lanes to turn left onto […]

The Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack due to Null Pointer Dereferencing vulnerability (CVE-2019-14604) can lead to vital exploits in the cloud scenario. It exists in the DMA driver module lacking sufficient checks while releasing memory pinned user-pages. This vulnerability can be exploited in the cloud to cause DoS attack or in rare cases, escalate privileges or execute […]

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Several FICS Research faculty -including Director Mark Tehranipoor, Yier Jin, Navid Asadi, Domenic Forte, Farimah Farahmandi, and Associate Director Kevin Butler- joined forces with Professor Waleed Khalil and other colleagues at OSU to form two new Centers of Excellence (COEs) sponsored by the Nimbis, Inc, a developer of collaborative cloud communities and Air Force Office […]

The Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability due to Partial Reconfiguration (PR) (CVE-2019-11165) exists in the device driver’s PR module due to the use of non-interruptible infinite loops. This can be exploited by an attacker to cause a DoS attack by making cloud FPGAs unavailable to other users. FPGA resources remain unavailable until the host is rebooted (frequent rebooting could […]

Prof. Kevin Butler recently received the honor of being conferred one of only two Arnold and Lisa Goldberg Rising Star Professorships in Computer Science by the University of Florida. Accompanied by a half-million dollar endowment, the award is in recognition of his efforts in leading research on uncovering smart phone vulnerabilities. Butler’s research focuses on the security of computers, from embedded […]