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.

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.

“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).