Assoc. Prof. Daniel Gruss was awarded the Förderungspreis des Landes Steiermark (Promotion Prize of the Province of Styria) for his paper “Transient-Execution Attacks and Defenses”. The prize was presented on 18th November 2022 and is remunerated with 12.000,- Euros.
You can read a short abstract of his work by clicking on the link on the right (in German).
Congratulations!
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!
On 14th October 2022, twelve students were awarded prizes and certificates for their contributions to scientific publications in 2021/22.
This year’s awardees are:
Johannes Erlacher, Simone Franza, Martin Haubenwallner, Jonas Juffinger, Andreas Kogler, Markus Köstl, Erik Kraft, Lukas Lamster, Alexander Palmisano, Stefan Pranger, Thomas Schuster, Amel Smajic.
Congratulations & keep up the good work!
Upon chatting about the current hot topics in security, students were able to learn more about open bachelor theses and research areas at IAIK and got in touch with potential advisors.
We are looking forward to your theses and to a successful Bachelor@IAIK in the year ahead!
Check out our available topics & the overview of writing a thesis at IAIK here!
Why not have a look the presentation of our research areas.
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.
We are proud to announce that IAIK PhD-student Aikata has received the 1st prize in the category “best master’s thesis” for her work “Efficient Polynomial Arithmetic Architecture for Saber and Dilithium”. Aikata was awarded the prize from the TU Graz Forum Technology and Society 2022, which honours PhD- and master theses which have particular relevance to society.
You can read more about the prize here (in German).
Congratulations and keep up the good work!
Large IT groups are working on making passwords obsolete. The technology for this already exists and is now to be brought into the cloud. Kleine Zeitung Kärnten spoke about the subject with IAIK senior scientist Arne Tauber.
You can read the full article (in german) by clicking on the link on the right.
We are delighted to announce that Daniel Gruß has successfully completed his tenure track and has now been promoted to be an associate professor as of 1st of June 2022. Daniel has been part of our institute since 2010 and become a popular lecturer and also a reknown researcher within his field. Along with his own and other research teams, he is responsible for the discoveries and defences against serious security bugs such as Meltdown and Spectre, ZombieLoad, or Load Value Injection.
Thank you for your committment, and most of all: Congratulations!
“Cybersecurity is the basic prerequisite for the for the functioning of a networked society. The basis of cybersecurity is confidentiality, availability, and integrity. How can I be sure that the data I get displayed is really trustworthy?”
Read the whole interview of The Red Bulletin Innovator Steiermark with Stefan Mangard by clicking on the link on the right (page 47).
Maria Eichlseder is conducting research at the highest international level on new mathematical methods that will make the world a safer place to communicate.
Find the full interview on page 40 of the “Spirit of Styria” magazine – link on the right (German only).
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