ISEC TU GRAZ
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WE ARE ISEC: The Institute of Information Security at TU Graz
FMCAD’26 is coming closer! From 14–18 September, we’re hosting the annual conference on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification in Graz. Join us for talks by Laura Kovács, Clark Barrett, Claire Xenia Wolf, and Travis Hance. 👉 fmcad.org/FMCAD26
I'm happy to announce our work has been accepted at ESORICS 2026: "A Systematic Look at Quality-of-Service Feature Effects on Side Channels in AMD SEV-SNP" Thanks to Carina Fiedler, @rayiizzz.bsky.social, @supersingular.bsky.social, @misc0110.bsky.social, and @gruss.cc for a fun collaboration!
Bettina Könighofer and her PhD students, Liam Plank and Matthias Grill, visited Castle Dagstuhl, where they attended a research meeting on “Challenges in Robust Decision-Making Under Uncertainty”.
Researchers from the Institute of Information Security at Graz University of Technology have been awarded an FFG Spin-off Fellowship for the project HOVERA.
We got visited by HTL Fulpmes last month! Daniel Gruss and his research group told the students about their research and cybersecurity at TU Graz.
🚨Earlybird registration for GSW ends on July 19th! Register now! securityweek.at Join us from September 7 to 11 for a deep dive into cybersecurity. Attend expert talks, hands-on lab sessions, test your skills in the CTF competition, and enjoy a social event to connect with fellow enthusiasts.
Greetings from DIMVA'26! 😎☀️ Last week, our researchers @rolicz.bsky.social, Stefan Gast, @hannesweissteiner.com and master student Tobias Weiser travelled to Chania, Greece. They attended the @dimvaconf.bsky.social and presented their papers:
We are happy to announce that Bettina Könighofer has been awarded an ASTRA Award by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for her project SEAL – Runtime Verification for Trustworthy AI. The grant provides € 1 million in funding over five years and is the first ASTRA award received by our institute! 🎉🤩
We’re hosting FMCAD’26 (Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design) this year! It’s an annual conference on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. 👇 Find out more and register today! fmcad.org/FMCAD26/
🎉 Congratulations to Stefan Gast! 🎉 He successfully defended his #PhD thesis “Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses beyond Capability Reduction”! 🎉 We’re sending him all our best wishes for an amazing future ahead!
ETH Zurich Honors Roderick Bloem (ISEC TU Graz) and Professor Andreas Bollin (University of Klagenfurt) for Commitment to Computer Science Education 🎉 photos by ETH Zurich/Jennis Besic
🚨Only one week left to apply for our student stipends to attend GSW’26 for free! 🚨 Deadline: June 28th, 2026! 👉 securityweek.at GSW is our annual summer school on cybersecurity, where you can look forward to five days of interesting talks, practical lab sessions, and a big social event. 😎☀️
Join us for a guest lecture by Alex Schlögl at the Pentesting Lab course! Topic: How LLMs are utilized in our day-to-day work to help us speed up testing, which tasks can be handled by LLMs, and where human expertise, oversight, and communication skills will likely never be replaced.
Thank you for celebrating 40 years of our institute with us last week! 🎉 Meeting many friends and colleagues again, that we hadn’t seen in years was amazing. Cheers to many more years of research, education and community! 🍻
🎉 Congratulations to Florian Draschbacher! 🎉 He successfully defended his #PhD thesis “Exploring Misconfigured Security Across the Mobile Platform Stack ”! 🎉 We wish him the best in all his future endeavors!
What is the targeted deanonymization side-channel attack? Why hasn’t it been fixed yet? Will somebody volunteer for the live demo? 🤯 Talk by Yossi Oren: 📅 June 22, 2026 | 17:00 📍 CCG Seminar room (CCGEG002), Sandgasse 38a, 8010 Graz More information about the talk 👇 www.isec.tugraz.at/events/
Are you a student and want to attend Graz Security Week for free? Apply for a student stipend until June 28th, 2026! 🤩 securityweek.at Our annual summer school on cybersecurity is five days of interesting talks, practical lab sessions, and a big social event. 😎☀️
Check out this article about ❄️ "FROST: Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing", a paper by our PhD student @hannesweissteiner.com ❄️The article: arstechnica.com/security/202... ❄️The paper: hannesweissteiner.com/pdfs/frost.pdf
Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity
Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.
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What a fascinating guest lecture and tech demo by our friends at NXP! 🤩 This guest lecture was organized as part of our Side-Channel Security master’s course.
Mobile Network Security: Is standardization fast enough to cope with modern attack vectors? 🤨 Join us for a guest lecture in Mobile Security by Georg Löffelmann, Head of Department Mobile @ A1 Telekom! 📅 May 29th | 10:00 📍 HS i12 More information 👇 www.isec.tugraz.at/events 📷 Sabine Hauswirth
🎉 Congratulations to Fabian Rauscher(@responsible.fyi)! 🎉 He successfully defended his #PhD thesis “Advancing CPU Security through Attack Discovery and Systematization” last week. 🎉 We wish him the best in his future endeavors!
So you encrypted your memory? 🤔 Join us for Jo Van Bulck's talk & meet #BadRAM and #BatteringRAM: a new class of memory aliasing attacks that defeat Intel SGX and AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing through low-cost interposition. 📅 May 7th | 14:00 📍 CCG Seminar room @distrinet.bsky.social
Join us for Laura Nenzi’s talk “Formal Verification of Neural Networks: Guarantees Beyond Testing”! 🤩 📅 April 30th, 2026 | 12:00 📍 CCG Seminar room, CCGEG002 Read the abstract here 👇 www.isec.tugraz.at/event/formal...
Student team LosFuzzys placed 3rd at the OpenAI Codex Hackathon in Vienna! As a prize, they received 5.000$ in OpenAI API and ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions. 🥳
Yesterday, we celebrated the official opening of the new Cybersecurity Campus Graz building! 🔑✨ After the celebratory speeches, Verena Schröppel, Edona Fasllija, and Lukas Maar, three of our researchers, shared their academic journeys and research topics. 📸 photos by Lunghammer – TU Graz
Poseidon2b: A Binary Field Version of Poseidon2 (Lorenzo Grassi, Dmitry Khovratovic, Katharina Koschatko, Christian Rechberger, Markus Schofnegger, Verena Schröppel) ia.cr/2025/1893
We officially got the key to the building yesterday! 🥰
TU Graz Inklusiv@tugraz.bsky.social · 4mo ago❗️Graz University of Technology is making a big statement when it comes to digital security: the new Cybersecurity Campus Graz has officially opened.❗️ Spanning 5,000 m², the campus now brings together world-leading international research and industry. www.tugraz.at/en/news/arti...
Have you wanted a closer looking into our new campus building? Check out this tour! 😉 youtu.be/FPqYrBGBR84?...
Tour durch den Cybersecurity Campus Graz
YouTube video by Technische Universität Graz
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