🚨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!

🎉 Congratulations Florian!!

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

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. 🥳

Thank you for joining us at the TU Graz Open Day! 😊

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! 🥰

Have you wanted a closer looking into our new campus building? Check out this tour! 😉 youtu.be/FPqYrBGBR84?...

🎉 Congratulations, Martin! 🎉 Martin Heckel successfully defended his #PhD thesis “Real-World Rowhammer: Understanding and Addressing the Challenges to Rowhammer Attacks” yesterday. 🥳 We wish him the best in his future endeavors!

🎉 Congratulations, Aikata! 🎉 She successfully defended her #PhD thesis “Secure and Efficient Implementations of Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms” today. 🥳 We wish her the best in her future endeavors!

The discovery of the longest pattern ever for DDR5 Rowhammer flips! 😱 📅 April 1sr, 2026 | 11:00 📍 CCG Seminar room, CCGEG002 Join us for Kaveh Razavi’s talk “Rowhammer bit flips a decade later”! 👇 www.isec.tugraz.at/event/rowham...

What a week! Our move is completed and from now on, you can find us at Sandgasse 38a. 🎉 A big thank you to everyone who made this quick transition possible. 🫶

Our PhD students, Carina Fiedler, @snee.la and @hannesweissteiner.com attended the NDSS Symposium 2026 in San Diego, California, this week to present their papers! Check them out in the thread 👇

We're waving goodbye to Inffeldgasse 16A! 👋 Today marks our final day here, and we're really excited about the adventures waiting for us at our fabulous new place at Sandgasse 38A. We can't wait to see all of you there after the move! 🥳

🎉 Congratulations to Martin Unterguggenberger! 🎉 He successfully defended his #PhD thesis “Defense-in-Depth Techniques for Memory Safety in Hardware” today. 🎉 We wish him all the best in his future endeavors!

Congratulations @snee.la ! 🎉

Find us at the @tugraz.bsky.social booth at Educatio Budapest until January 10th, to find out about our study programms in information security! ☺️ #university #informationsecurity #computerscience

Thank you for joining our Bachelor@ISEC event in October, and congratulations to all award winners! 🍕❤️ Wishing you a wonderful holiday season! We can’t wait to see you all next year for more events at our institute! 🎄

🎉 Congratulations to Benedikt Maderbacher! 🎉 He successfully defended his #PhD thesis “Reactive Synthesis Modulo Theories” yesterday. 🎉 We wish him all the best for an amazing future ahead!

Join us tomorrow for the InfoSec + SSD Christmas special, featuring real-world exploits, live hacking of various targets, information leaks, file formats, and a review of the year in security. 📅 December 17th, 2025 | 17:30 📍 Lecture Hall HS i13, Inffeldgasse 16b

Join us for Rüdiger Ehlers’ talk on polynomial-time minimizable automata for omega-regular languages this Thursday! His talk summarizes the main ideas of two recently introduced polynomial-time minimizable automaton models for omega-regular languages.

Specialise in Cybersecurity with the Master’s programs and kickstart your academic journey at TU Graz with the ‘Cybersecurity Scholarship’ (€4,000/semester) for international students! 🌍✨ Your future starts here—apply today! 🚀 #studyabroad #scholarship #informationtechnology #cybersecurity

Two of our courses were awarded the Student’s List Award! 🎉 It was presented to the best courses of the summer semester 2024 and winter semester 2024/25 in our faculty’s BME and CS/SEM/ICE programs by student representatives, based on student feedback.

In September, our researchers attended the Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (#CHES2025) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. While there, they reunited with their former colleagues from TU Graz. 😊

PhD Candidate Aikata was selected for a netidee "Call 20" stipend for her research, titled "Hardware Design for Post-Quantum Cryptography and Homomorphic Encryption." 🎉 Find out more 👇 www.netidee.at/hardware-des...

This year, we launched the semester with our Master@ISEC event for the first time! We extended a warm welcome to the new master's students joining our campus and shared information about the Major in Information Security. Want to take part? Join us in Graz in 2026! www.tugraz.at/go/admission...

Curious now? Specialise in Cybersecurity with our Master’s programmes & kickstart your academic journey with the ‘Cybersecurity Scholarship’ (€4,000/semester) for international students! 🌍✨ Your future starts here—apply today! 🚀 #studyabroad #university #austria #scholarship #cybersecurity

Curious now? Specialise in Cybersecurity with our Master’s programmes & kickstart your academic journey with the ‘Cybersecurity Scholarship’ (€4,000/semester) for international students! 🌍✨ Your future starts here—apply today! 🚀 #studyabroad #university #austria #scholarship #cybersecurity

Congratulations! 🎉 Maria Eichlseder has been awarded the Styrian state funding prize for her habilitation, “Secure Lightweight Cryptography.” Photo by Foto Fischer #cryptography #informationsecurity

Institute head Stefan Mangard, spoke at the TU Graz 100 Scholarship Ceremony and awarded this year’s #Cybersecurity Scholarships! This #scholarship supports excellent international students who completed their bachelor's at another university & come to Graz to specialise in #informationsecurity.

Specialise in Cybersecurity with the Master’s programs and kickstart your academic journey at Graz University of Technology with the ‘Cybersecurity Scholarship’ (€4,000/semester) for international students! 🌍✨ Your future starts here—apply now! 🚀 #studyabroad #scholarship #cybersecurity

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!