Each year, the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research honors the achievements of the best 39 doctoral graduates from Austrian universities with Awards of Excellence. We are delighted to announce that IAIK alumnus Martin Schwarzl is one of the recipients of this year’s Austrian National Award for Best Dissertations 2023 . His doctoral thesis, “Remote Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses”, made significant contributions to the field of system security. The work shows how low-level aspects of computer organization, memory management, caches, and transient execution, can be exploited even by remote adversaries to leak sensitive information.

To read more about the award, please click here!

Dedicated commitment, excellent didactic concepts, and a lot of motivation are some of the core ingredients to achieve an honour for outstanding achievements and evaluations in teaching.

For her lecture in “Cryptography“, IAIK assistant professor Maria Eichlseder was among four awardees who were presented with a prize for excellence in teaching 2022/23 at Graz University of Technology. The ceremony took place on 15th November 2023.

Congratulations!

More information on the award can be found here.

We are happy that we were able to meet a respectable number of students at our annual Bachelor@IAIK event again, which we hold at the beginning of each winter semester.
We presented our new open bachelor’s thesis topics, and awarded prizes to excellent students who contributed to scientific publications in the past year.

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Once more, our annual summer school Security Week took place earlier in September in the beautiful halls of our Old Campus.
Increasingly popular, it drew more than 90 participants from close and afar. Twelve international speakers shared their expertise, and students had the opportunity to present their theses, take part in labs, and gain ECTS points.
Our outing to a traditional inn in the countryside, and the odd night out were another good opportunity for networking and not to be missed. You can have a look at a few impressions here.

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Graz next year!

Main processors (CPUs) of computers are designed to run multiple applications simultaneously. This is beneficial for efficiency, but poses a security risk. Researchers at TU Graz and the Helmholtz Center for Information Security have found a novel method that allows attackers to read data from the memory of CPUs by analyzing the processor’s energy consumption. They call this method of attack “Collide+Power“.

To find out more, click on the link on the right or see Collide+Power