Maria Mushtaq

Ph.D. Researcher

Lab-STICC

University of South Brittany

Contact Lab-STICC CNRS UMR 6285 University of South Brittany Lorient, France Email : maria.mushtaq@univ-ubs.fr [CV] [HAL] [Dblp]

About

Education

• PhD in Computer Security, Lab-STICC, University of South Brittany, France
  Thesis Title : Consideration of side-channel attacks in the allocation of resources within MPSoC (2016 - Present)
  Director of thesis: Guy GOGNIAT
  Advisor of thesis: Vianney LAPOTRE
  
• Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Pakistan
  Thesis Title: Developing Trust in Ride Share Systems (Artificial Transport Systems) (2012 - 2014)
  Thesis Advisor: Hamid Turab Mirza
  Co-Advisor of Thesis : Adnan Ahmad
  

Publications

Conference Papers

1. Sherlock Holmes of Cache Side-Channel Attacks in Intel's x86 Architecture,
   M. Mushtaq, A. Akram, M. K. Bhatti, A. Usman, V. Lapotre, G. Gogniat.
   Accepted at IEEE-Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE-CNS), to be held on 10-12 June, Washington, D.C.,USA,2019.
   

2. NIGHTs-WATCH: A Cache-Based Side-Channel Intrusion Detector using Hardware Performance Counters,
   M. Mushtaq, A. Akram, M. K. Bhatti, C. Maham, V. Lapotre, G. Gogniat.
   Published at ACM-Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP-ISCA), LA, California,USA, 2018.
   [BibTex] [PDF]

3. Run-time Detection of Prime+Probe Side-Channel Attack on AES Encryption Algorithm,
   M. Mushtaq, A. Akram, M. K. Bhatti, R. N. Raees, V. Lapotre, G. Gogniat.
   Published at IEEE-Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (IEEE-GIIS), Thessaloniki, 2018.
   [BibTex] [PDF]

4. Machine Learning for Security: The case of Side-Channel Attack Detection at Run-time,
   M. Mushtaq, A. Akram, M. K. Bhatti, C. Maham, Y. Muneeb, F. Umer, V. Lapotre, G. Gogniat.
   Published at 25th IEEE International Conference on Electronics (IEEE-ICECS), Bordeaux, France, 2018.
   [BibTex] [PDF]

5. Improving Confidentiality Against Cache-based SCAs,
   M. Mushtaq, M. A. Mukhtar, V. Lapotre, M. K. Bhatti, G. Gogniat.
   Conference of ACM-WomENcourage-2017, Barcelona, Spain
   [BibTex] [PDF]

6. Cache-Based Side-Channel Intrusion Detection using Hardware Performance Counters
   M. Mushtaq, Akram Ayaz, M. K. Bhatti, Lapotre Vianney, Gogniat Guy
   CryptArchi 2018 - 16th International Workshops on Cryptographic architectures embedded in logic devices, Lorient, 2018
   [BibTex] [PDF]

Journal Articles

1. Locality-Aware Task Scheduling of Homogenous Parallel Computing Systems.
   Bhatti Muhammad Khurram, Oz Isil, Amin Sarah, Mushtaq Maria, Farooq Umer, Popov Konstantin, Brorsson Mats
   Published at Springer Computing, 2017.
   [BibTex]

Under Review Journal Articles

1. WHISPER: A Tool for Run-time Detection of Cache Side-Channel Attacks,
   M. Mushtaq, J. Bricq, M. K. Bhatti, A. Akram, V. Lapotre, G. Gogniat.
   Under Review At ACM Transaction on Embedded Computing Systems (ACM-TECS), Since February 2019.
   

2. A Decade of Cache-based Software Side-Channel Attacks & Mitigation Techniques,
   M. Mushtaq, V. Lapotre, M. K. Bhatti, M. A. Mukhtar, G. Gogniat.
   Under Review At Elsevier Information Systems, Since February 2019.
   

3. Smart Flush: A Timing Countermeasure against FLUSH+RELOAD Cache-based Side-Channel Attack on RSA
   M. A. Mukhtar, M. Mushtaq, M. K. Bhatti, V. Lapotre, G. Gogniat.
   Under Review At Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture since March, 2018.
   

4. Meet the Sherlock Holmes of Information Security: Survey of cache SCA Detection Techniques.
   A. Akram, M. Mushtaq, M. K. Bhatti, V. Lapotre, G. Gogniat.
   Under Review at Eurasip Journal on Information Security (JINS), Since August 2018.