EECE 5698-008
Special Topics: Cyber-Physical Security of IoT Systems in the Age of AI
Fall 2025

Handouts

All handouts for lectures, readings, and supplementary materials will be listed here in chronological order. Use the numbering system to easily reference materials.

Handout # Date Due Description
1 Sep 4 L01: Introduction to Embedded Security
2 Sep 7 Lab Safety Guidelines
3 Sep 8 Due Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 11:45AM PreLab 01: Introduction to Electronic Benchtop Tools for Measuring Embedded Security
4 Sep 8 Due Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 11:45AM Lab 01: Introduction to Electronic Benchtop Tools for Measuring Embedded Security
5 Sep 8 L02: Threat Modeling
6 Sep 8 "On the Importance of Checking Cryptographic Protocols for Faults" by Boneh et al., EuroCrypt 1997.
7 Sep 15 Due Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 11:45AM Essay 01: Fault injection attacks on smartcards
8 Sep 15 L03: Signals and Systems Refresher
9 Sep 15 "Risks of trusting the physics of sensors" by Fu et al., Communications of the ACM 2018.
10 Sep 15 Due Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 11:45AM PreLab 02: Aliasing and Sound
11 Sep 18 "WALNUT: Waging Doubt on the Integrity of MEMS Accelerometers with Acoustic Injection Attacks" by Trippel et al., EuroS&P 2017.
12 Sep 19 L04: Transduction Attacks and EMI
13 Sep 22 L05: Sound and Sensors
14 Sep 22 Due Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 11:45AM Lab 02: Acoustic Injections Against Accelerometers Exploiting Signal Aliasing
15 Oct 2 L06: Sound and Confidentiality “Everything is a Microphone”
16 Oct 2 "Blue Note: How Intentional Acoustic Interference Damages Availability and Integrity in Hard Disk Drives and Operating Systems" by Bolton et al., IEEE S&P 2018.
17 Oct 2 Design Project: Protecting the Security of Voice-Controlled Systems from Laser Injection Attacks
18 Oct 3 L07: Analog Security of Cyber-Physical Systems: A Sound Story of Sensors
19 Oct 6 L08: Sound and Availability
20 Oct 6 Due Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 11:45AM Prelab 03: Ultrasound & Nonlinear Intermodulation
21 Oct 6 Due Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 11:45AM Lab 03: Ultrasound & Nonlinear Intermodulation
22 Oct 9 Guest Lecture: When Security & Hardware Meet: Key Concepts and Applications
23 Oct 30 Due Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 11:45AM Lab 04: Laser Injection Against MEMS Microphones
24 Nov 6 L09: Clocks, Time Travel, & Fuming Nitric Acid
25 Nov 10 L10: I Intended That: Using EMI to Control Digital Systems
26 Nov 17 Project Tournament Procedure and Rubric
27 Nov 17 L11: Physical Security in FPGA circuits
28 Dec 3 Project: Voice Command and Defense Methods