This September, we had the privilege of hosting the annual 25th International Conference on Runtime Verification (RV) at TU Graz! 😎🎉 #RV25 #conference #graz

🎉 Congratulations to Alexander Marsalek! 🎉 He successfully defended his #PhD thesis “Dealing with Blockchain’s Immutability and Ever-Growing Size” today. 🎉 We’re sending him all our best wishes for an amazing future ahead!

This was GSW’25 in a Nutshell! 🌰 We hope you had a great time at our summer school this year. Will you join us in 2026? 😎☀️ 📌 GSW’26: 📅 7.–11.9.2026 #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #tugraz #GSW25 #GSW26 #summerschool

Not sure what topic to choose for your thesis? Join us this Friday, Oct 10th! 🍕 At the Bachelor@ISEC event, we present new open bachelor’s thesis topics and award prizes to excellent students! more info 👇 www.isec.tugraz.at/event/bachel... #cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computerscience

🎉 Congratulations to Lukas Maar! 🎉 He successfully defended his #PhD thesis “ Kernel Security in the Wild: Side-Channel-Assisted Exploit Techniques, Kernel-Level Defenses, and Real-World Analysis” last week. 🎉 We’re sending him all our best wishes for an amazing future ahead!

Are you interested in or already doing a major in Information Security at TU Graz? Join us for our Master@ISEC Welcome Event! 🍕 📅 October 1st, 2025 | 18:00 📍 ISEC Foyer, ground floor, Inffeldgasse 16a 👉 www.isec.tugraz.at/event/master...

Save the date! 📌 Next Graz Security Week: September 07–11, 2026 #GSW26 #cybersecurity #summerschool

Just a few hours ago GSW25 ended, but the fun never stops! Daniel Gruss and Manuel Weber hosted a speaker training for our participants, with some very fun excersises and individual feedback! #GSW25 #speakertraining

Georg Fuchsbauer concluded our summer school by giving a great in-depth talk on 'Anonymous (Bitcoin) payments from blind signatures'. #GSW25 #bitcoin #blockchain

This morning, David Oswald started our last day at GSW with his talk "Breaching the Gates: Uncovering Hardware Weaknesses in Confidential Computing", giving an overview of power side-channels and fault attacks in confidential computing scenario. #GSW25 #sidechannels

Thursday evening, @gruss.cc hosted a city tour, showing off the best spots in the inner city, climbing the "Schlossberg," and surprising first-time visitors and locals alike with many fun facts! #GSW25 #Graz

In the Afternoon, our PhD students hosted the Software Side-Channels Lab, where the participants experimented with various microarchitectural side channels. #GSW25 #Software #SideChannel

Later in the morning, Jo van Bulck gave an insightful talk about attacking and defending Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and the evolution of confidential computing. #GSW25 #TEE

Sahar Abdelnabi's morning talk "What does it mean for AI agents to preserve privacy?" highlighted how LLMs can leak data and introduced the concept of contextual integrity to help align them with social and legal norms. #GSW25 #LLM #AI

Social Event Part 2: Our culinary adventure continues! For dinner we went to a traditional Styrian "Buschenschank", a restaurant serving cold spreads made of local foods and their own wine and juices. 😍 #GSW25 #buschenschank

Social Event Part 1: Trip to the @zotterchocolates.bsky.social chocolate factory! We tasted our way through the factory with over 40 chocolate stations, experiencing the whole production process from the cocoa bean to the delicious end product! 😋🍫 #GSW25 #chocolate

For our after-lunch-session we hosted a hardware side-channel lab, where our participants used physical side-channel attacks to break the security of embedded devices. #GSW25 #Hardware #SideChannels

In our second morning session, Stefan Mangard and @gruss.cc spoke about side-channel attacks in various settings - from phones to computers to networks - showing that side channels really are everywhere. #GSW25 #SideChannels

Today, we started with a talk by Yang Zhang about how large generative models can be abused for various malicious porpoises. #GSW25 #AI

This afternoon, our student team LosFuzzys hosted the Graz Security Week CTF! To keep the spirits high and minds sharp, we provided some pizza. ✨🍕 Congratulations to all winners! 🥳 1st place: "Computerclub St. Pölten (not)" 2nd place: "Zotter Fanclub" 3rd place: "Polund" #GSW25 #CTF

In our second session, Christian Rossow shared an overview of CFI techniques and developments and showed which areas still need further research to improve the guarantees CFI can provide and the compatibility with language constructs. #GSW25 #CFI #Cybersecurity

For our first session today, Fabio Pierazzi talked about trends and challenges in AI for systems security. What an exciting start to Day 2 of GSW'25! #GSW25 #AI #SystemSecurity

Our last session of the day: The PhD Forum—here our participants got the chance to share their research in short 5-min presentations!  Hopefully, this will help them to get connected with others working on similar topics and spark some interesting discussions this week! #GSW25 #PhD #research

In the afternoon, we continued with "Advanced Branch Target Injection Attacks" by Kaveh Razavi: An awesome talk about how branch target injection aka spectre v2 attacks evolved since 2018! #GSW25 #spectre

We're kicking-off our summer school Graz Security Week with a short introduction and our first talk by Maria Eichlseder about Lightweight Cryptography and its challenges. #GSW25 #lightweight #cryptography

Welcome to Graz! We wish you a great week. 😎

Here we go! Graz Security Week is starting any minute now! 🥳

Only 5 more days until the GSW registration closes! ☀️ From September 1–5, immerse yourself in cybersecurity topics, engage with expert speakers, and connect with fellow enthusiasts! Join us for an action-packed week and register now! 👇 securityweek.at

Starting this autumn, there will be updates to the Master’s curricula: we’re adding new courses and updating some of the existing ones. We also have news about our Master@ISEC network. 😎 Check it out: www.isec.tugraz.at/new-curricul...

Good luck LosFuzzys! The student team is taking part in the Finale of the CTF (Capture the Flag) Competition hosted by DEF CON in Las Vegas this weekend! They are there as part of a merged Austrian team called KuK Hofhackerei. 💪🚩🏆 youtube.com/shorts/fBEax...

🎉 Congratulations TACEO! 🎉 The Graz Tech Startup just raised $5.5M for their "Private Shared State" Technology. The Austrian startup @taceo.bsky.social has developed breakthrough technology that allows organizations to collaboratively process and verify sensitive data without revealing it.

The Austrian team "KuK Hofhackerei", one of the 12 best ethical hacking teams in the world, will compete in the final round of the DEFCON “Capture the Flag” contest in Las Vegas. This marks the first time since 2012 that an Austrian team has made it to the finals. www.tugraz.at/en/news/arti...

Earlybird registration ends on August 4th! Register now! 👇 securityweek.at Join us from September 1 to 5 for a deep dive into cybersecurity. Attend expert talks, hands-on lab sessions, and the PhD forum. Test your skills in the Capture the Flag competition, and connect with fellow enthusiasts.

This month, we had the privilege of hosting @dimvaconf.bsky.social at TU Graz! 😎🎉 2.5 days filled with engaging talks, a poster session and networking opportunities.

Congratulations Dr. @giner.cc! It was great to have you in our team and I am proud of you that you have completed this journey with an excellent PhD thesis. Your works will have lasting impact on the community and I wish you the best for your next endeavors!

How fast can cache attacks be? What precision can they have? 🤔 Learn how weird microarchitectural gates improve cache attacks at Yuval Yarom’s talk next week! 📅 July 22nd, 2025 | 11:00 📍 ISEC Seminar room, IFEG042 👉 www.isec.tugraz.at/events/

🎉 Congratulations to @notimaginary.bsky.social! 🎉 This week, he defended his PhD thesis “Attacking and Securing Leaky Systems at the Hardware-Software Boundary.”! We’re so excited for you and wish you all the best for the future!🌟 Check out the thesis here 👇 www.jonasjuffinger.com/phd-thesis.pdf

📢 WE ARE HIRING! We’re looking for a Tenure Track Professor in #Cybersecurity and #AI who will complement the existing strengths of our institute! As the new professor, you will build your own research group and teach in the Computer Science programs. #WeAreHiring #informationsecurity #tenuretrack

Deadline for student stipend application is today!

Join us for Onur Mutlu’s talk “Memory-Centric Computing: Enabling Fundamentally Efficient & Intelligent Machines” next week! 📅 July 7th, 2025 | 11:30 📍 ISEC Seminar room, IFEG042 👉 www.isec.tugraz.at/events/

Last week, the Austrian Newspaper “Der Standard” published an article featuring our Associate Professor Sujoy Sinha Roy, discussing cryptography, its challenges, and the research and solutions he and his team are creating. Read the article (in German) here 👇 www.pressreader.com/austria/der-...

Do you want to attend our summer school for free? ☀️ Apply for a student stipend until the end of the week! Info @ securityweek.at GSW is a 5-day cybersecurity summer school in Graz, Austria. Main topics: AI Security, Cryptography & Cryptographic Implementations, Side Channels, and System Security.

This week @snee.la and I presented our work Not So Secure TSC at ACNS in Munich. www.jonasjuffinger.com/papers/secur...

A modular interpretation of the Hessian of elliptic curves by Riccardo Lolato 📅 June 27th | 13:00 📍 ISEC seminar room, IFEG042

Green Intelligent & Connected Systems with Sensory Intelligence on Chip: Pushing AI Out of the Cloud and into the Physical World ☁️ 📅 June 25th, 2025 | 14:00 📍 HS i12, TU Graz 👉 www.isec.tugraz.at/events/

From September 15 to 19, 2025, we’re hosting the 25th International Conference on Runtime Verification (RV 2025) at TU Graz! Find out more: rv25.isec.tugraz.at #Runtime #Verification #Conference #RV25

Only one month left to submit your paper for the first submission cycle at uASC 2026! 📅 Submission Deadline: July 15, 2025 👉 uasc.cc #microarchitecture #security #conference #uasc26

Congratulations to Vedad Hadžić for completing his #PhD! 🎉 He defended his thesis “Provable Physical Side-channel Security” at the end of May. We wish him all the best for his future!

DIMVA '25 takes place in Graz this year! It’s the 22nd Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment. Check out the program and register now: www.dimva.org/dimva2025/ #DIMVA25 @dimvaconf.bsky.social‬

Can Big Data solve Safety and Security Problems? 🔍 📅 June 16th, 2025 | 17:30 📍 Aula, TU Graz Open to all! No registration required.