Congrats to my co-lecturers @mautem.bsky.social, @matteomaffei.bsky.social, @wert310.bsky.social, Pedro Bernardo, @beerphilipp.bsky.social, Simon Jeanteur and our amazing tutors: this wouldn't be possible without you. And thanks to all students for the great feedback and participation 🙏

Der Informatiker Matteo Maffei entwickelt mit seinem Team an der @tuwien.at innovative #cybersecurity Lösungen wie etwa zum Schutz der Privatsphäre und vor Hackerangriffen. @matteomaffei.bsky.social #scilog 🖥️ Videoporträt jetzt ansehen ▶️ scilog.fwf.ac.at/magazin/safe...

Kudos to the @erc.europa.eu and Cordia team for featuring this nice summary of my Browsec Consolidator grant. What a journey! And still great research in web security on the horizon 😀 cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4...

Für die Forschung sind die Zeiten vielerorts schwieriger geworden. In Wien wurden die Bedingungen stetig besser. Ich bin überzeugt, dass dieser Trend anhält, die Unterstützung dafür stark bleibt und werde meinen Teil dazu beitragen. Ich lebe und forsche gerne in Wien! #IchForscheGernInWien

Wir sollten uns angewöhnen, die EU-Kommissionspräsidentin als "Leader of the Free World" zu bezeichnen, wie man das früher in Amerika mit dem US-Präsidenten gemacht hat.

Grateful to @iacrcrypto.bsky.social for acting quickly to address serious concerns from the community.

Excited to highlight Markus Scherer's talk at #Wasm Research Days. A collaborative masterpiece with J.F.Blaabjerg (Aarhus University) and A. Sjösten, @msolitro.bsky.social, @matteomaffei.bsky.social sky.social from @tuwien.at. Discover how Wappler pioneers in this domain youtu.be/KwI55q4GBxo?...

TU Wien is hiring for an assistant professor (tenure-track) in NLP. This is a joint position with the Complexity Science Hub. This is a particularly great opportunity if you also like network science and/or complex systems and/or computational social science. jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/248962

Great to have Jonathan Katz from Google as part of our @cysecwien.bsky.social @tuwien.at distinguished lecture series. Thanks for the visit and the fruitful research collaborations we kicked off this week!

I am personally cutting most subscriptions with US companies (Amazon Prime etc) and trying to use and buy only EU products and services.

Today we kicked off our master course on Formal Methods for Security and Privacy @cysecwien.bsky.social . Welcome to all students, looking forward to the new projects and lectures that have been freshly prepared with love by our group!

Proud moment at #NDSS 2025! SPyCoDe researchers showcased 4 groundbreaking papers. Kudos to @matteomaffei.bsky.social, Z. Avarikioti, S. Gast, @gruss.cc, @notimaginary.bsky.social, @hannesweissteiner.xyz, S. Mangard, and co-authors. For more details and links, visit spycode.at/events/#2025...

Giulia Scaffino from @cysecwien.bsky.social on stage at Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) presenting Alba, our framework for interoperability across Layer-2 solutions. If you are interested, take a look at our paper! www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/a...

🚀 Exciting news! Jonathan Katz from #Google is giving a lecture at #TUW! 📢 "Round-Optimal Fully Secure Distributed Key Generation" 📅 March 4 | Attend in person or online Don’t miss this chance to learn from a cryptography expert! 🔐 📌 Details: cysec.wien/news/2025-03...

Engaging discussions at the AI & Security Competence Forum! Experts M. Maffei ‪@matteomaffei.bsky.social‬, T. Stubbings #CTS, A. Janda #KSÖ, R. Schneider #DeutscheTelekom, and J. Schlaghuber #Siemens reached a strong consensus on the necessity of intensifying efforts. #CyberSicherheit #CyberSecurity

So nice to bring dogs to work 🥰 @cysecwien.bsky.social

Gadgets have arrived 🤩 @cysecwien.bsky.social

Last week we had a very inspiring retreat in Semmering for our @fwf-at.bsky.social -funded @spycode.bsky.social special research program. Lots of exciting collaborations at the horizon!

Congratulations to @erkantairi.bsky.social , former PhD student in the Security and Privacy Group at TU Wien, on his FWF Schrödinger fellowship, which will allow him to spend 2 years at UC Berkeley and then 1 year at IST Austria. I am very proud of you and all the best for the future!

The Italian government pays Musk 1.5B EUR for top-level encryption and secure communication. First, I would be curious to know what “top-level encryption” means. Second, what about sovereignty? www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/com...

Blink, our optimal light client for proof of work, has been accepted at Financial Crypto 2025 🥳 Made with love at TU Wien, Stanford University, Common Prefix, and CDL-BOT eprint.iacr.org/2024/692

We are starting a new FWF doctoral college at TU Wien on Automated Reasoning for Security and AI. Looking forward to work with this fantastic team of PIs (Weissenbacher, Christakis, Kóvacs, Bartocci, and Fazekas) We will soon be hiring more than 13 PhD students! www.tuwien.at/en/tu-wien/n...

Congratulations to Lukas Aumayr, who received the Best Dissertation Award 2024 in Informatics at TU Wien! I could summarize my statement with these words: "Lukas, you are an amazing researcher and an amazing person. It was a privilege to mentor you along this journey! All the best for the future!"

Websec folks, this is a good opportunity to join our team in Vienna. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

I have an opening for several Ph.D. positions at TU Wien. Topics of interest include formal methods for security (e.g., for crypto protocols and machine learning analysis), web security, and blockchains. Apply online at https://buff.ly/4fVSmBI by 19/12/2024

We have 3 tenure-track openings on "Transforming Science with AI/ML” at TU Wien, as part of the competitive WWTF Vienna Research Group for Young Investigators grant (1.6M EUR). Researchers working at the intersection between Security & AI are encouraged to apply! cysec.wien/calls/call_w...

It was a real pleasure to open the Fintech Week 2024 with a keynote on "AI and Cybersecurity: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". Many thanks to the organizers and to the panelists for the super interesting discussions!