🎉 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!

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