Congratulations to Carina Fiedler and Ernesto Martínez García, who both received the Information Security Scholarship on 2nd December 2022!
The Cybersecurity Campus Graz is awarding these scholarships, which were sponsored by Stiftung Secure Information and Communication Technologies. Recipients are talented and motivated international students starting their studies at TU Graz. Students qualify if they have a major in information security within the English-language master’s programmes of Computer Science, Information and Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering and Management.

Find out more about the scholarship by clicking on the link on the right!

Daniel Gruss receives the prestigious EU funding award for research into energy-efficient IT security from the European Research Council in 2022. The research of computer scientist and cybersecurity expert Daniel Gruss and also of experimental physicist and START Prize winner Marcus Ossiander will receive funding totalling 3.3 million euros over the next five years, the European Research Council announced today. 
Read more about their remarkable achievement by clicking on the link on the right.

Our lecture “Information Security” is the best-evaluated bachelor-level course of the CS&BME faculty!

In an award ceremony at CS&BME Faculty Day 2022, the faculty celebrated both the best students (“Dean’s List”) and, for the first time this year, the best course (“Students’ List”) in each degree programme.
“Information Security VO” won with the best evaluations in the past years in the bachelor degree programmes CS, ICE, and SEM.
Earlier this week, “Information Security” was also a nominated finalist for the Prize for Excellence in Teaching by TU Graz, which several IAIK courses have won in the past years.
The course is taught by Maria Eichlseder, Daniel Gruss, and Jakob Heher and introduces students to the foundations of our research areas: Cryptography & Privacy, System Security, and Secure Applications.

Congratulations to all awardees on the Dean’s List – we’re proud that several of them are teaching assistants in our courses!

International IT security research teams headed by Daniel Gruss of IAIK have released information on two new forms of cyberattack that exploit hardware.
Reliable, bug-free computer hardware provides the foundation for secure software. Now, vulnerabilities on the hardware side are increasingly attracting the attention of hackers and developers alike, not least following the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre side-channel attacks by TU Graz researchers in 2018. Since then, researchers – including from TU Graz – have uncovered a series of new openings for cyberattacks that capitalise on weaknesses in PC hardware. A team headed by Daniel Gruss has now published details of two further vulnerabilities: Æpic Leak and SQUIP.

Read the whole article by following the link on the right.

Extremely powerful computers of the future require alternative encryption and signature methods. In a six-year process, the US authority NIST has now elevated four post-quantum algorithms to standard status – one of these algorithms, the signature algorithm SPHINCS+, was developed by the SPHINCS+-team including Christian Rechberger of IAIK. To read the full article, please click on the link on the right.