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🎉 Congratulations to Alexander Marsalek! 🎉

He successfully defended his #PhD thesis “Dealing with Blockchain’s Immutability and Ever-Growing Size” today. 🎉
We’re sending him all our best wishes for an amazing future ahead!

This was GSW’25 in a Nutshell! 🌰

We hope you had a great time at our summer school this year. Will you join us in 2026? 😎☀️

📌 GSW’26:
📅 7.–11.9.2026

#cybersecurity #informationsecurity #tugraz #GSW25 #GSW26 #summerschool

The event will also be the kick-off lecture in Introduction to Scientific Working (ISW), where you can choose your preferred topic!

ISEC Bachelor Excellence Award: This award is for students majoring in “Information Security” at TU Graz who have completed their bachelor’s degree with distinction at TU Graz. Application deadline: Oct 9th 2025!

🏆 THE AWARDS 🏆
ISEC Student Research Excellence Award: Students at ISEC who became co-authors of a scientific publication in the context of a thesis or project receive this award.

Not sure what topic to choose for your thesis? Join us this Friday, Oct 10th! 🍕
At the Bachelor@ISEC event, we present new open bachelor’s thesis topics and award prizes to excellent students!

more info 👇
www.isec.tugraz.at/event/bachel...

#cybersecurity #informationsecurity #computerscience

🎉 Congratulations to Lukas Maar! 🎉

He successfully defended his #PhD thesis “ Kernel Security in the Wild: Side-Channel-Assisted Exploit Techniques, Kernel-Level Defenses, and Real-World Analysis” last week. 🎉

We’re sending him all our best wishes for an amazing future ahead!

Are you interested in or already doing a major in Information Security at TU Graz? Join us for our Master@ISEC Welcome Event! 🍕

📅 October 1st, 2025 | 18:00
📍 ISEC Foyer, ground floor, Inffeldgasse 16a

👉 www.isec.tugraz.at/event/master...

Save the date! 📌

Next Graz Security Week:
September 07–11, 2026

#GSW26 #cybersecurity #summerschool

Just a few hours ago GSW25 ended, but the fun never stops! Daniel Gruss and Manuel Weber hosted a speaker training for our participants, with some very fun excersises and individual feedback!

#GSW25 #speakertraining

Georg Fuchsbauer concluded our summer school by giving a great in-depth talk on 'Anonymous (Bitcoin) payments from blind signatures'.

#GSW25 #bitcoin #blockchain

This morning, David Oswald started our last day at GSW with his talk "Breaching the Gates: Uncovering Hardware Weaknesses in Confidential Computing", giving an overview of power side-channels and fault attacks in confidential computing scenario.

#GSW25 #sidechannels

Thursday evening, @gruss.cc hosted a city tour, showing off the best spots in the inner city, climbing the "Schlossberg," and surprising first-time visitors and locals alike with many fun facts!

#GSW25 #Graz

In the Afternoon, our PhD students hosted the Software Side-Channels Lab, where the participants experimented with various microarchitectural side channels.

#GSW25 #Software #SideChannel

Later in the morning, Jo van Bulck gave an insightful talk about attacking and defending Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and the evolution of confidential computing.

#GSW25 #TEE

Sahar Abdelnabi's morning talk "What does it mean for AI agents to preserve privacy?" highlighted how LLMs can leak data and introduced the concept of contextual integrity to help align them with social and legal norms.

#GSW25 #LLM #AI

Social Event Part 2: Our culinary adventure continues! For dinner we went to a traditional Styrian "Buschenschank", a restaurant serving cold spreads made of local foods and their own wine and juices. 😍

#GSW25 #buschenschank

Social Event Part 1: Trip to the @zotterchocolates.bsky.social chocolate factory! We tasted our way through the factory with over 40 chocolate stations, experiencing the whole production process from the cocoa bean to the delicious end product! 😋🍫

#GSW25 #chocolate

For our after-lunch-session we hosted a hardware side-channel lab, where our participants used physical side-channel attacks to break the security of embedded devices.

#GSW25 #Hardware #SideChannels

In our second morning session, Stefan Mangard and @gruss.cc spoke about side-channel attacks in various settings - from phones to computers to networks - showing that side channels really are everywhere.

#GSW25 #SideChannels

Today, we started with a talk by Yang Zhang about how large generative models can be abused for various malicious porpoises.

#GSW25 #AI

A room full of people doing CTF challenges

The winners of the CTF

Tech support by LosFuzzys

Thumbs up!

This afternoon, our student team LosFuzzys hosted the Graz Security Week CTF! To keep the spirits high and minds sharp, we provided some pizza. ✨🍕

Congratulations to all winners! 🥳
1st place: "Computerclub St. Pölten (not)"
2nd place: "Zotter Fanclub"
3rd place: "Polund"

#GSW25 #CTF

In our second session, Christian Rossow shared an overview of CFI techniques and developments and showed which areas still need further research to improve the guarantees CFI can provide and the compatibility with language constructs.

#GSW25 #CFI #Cybersecurity

For our first session today, Fabio Pierazzi talked about trends and challenges in AI for systems security. What an exciting start to Day 2 of GSW'25!

#GSW25 #AI #SystemSecurity

Our last session of the day: The PhD Forum—here our participants got the chance to share their research in short 5-min presentations! 

Hopefully, this will help them to get connected with others working on similar topics and spark some interesting discussions this week!

#GSW25 #PhD #research

In the afternoon, we continued with "Advanced Branch Target Injection Attacks" by Kaveh Razavi: An awesome talk about how branch target injection aka spectre v2 attacks evolved since 2018!

#GSW25 #spectre

We're kicking-off our summer school Graz Security Week with a short introduction and our first talk by Maria Eichlseder about Lightweight Cryptography and its challenges.

#GSW25 #lightweight #cryptography

Welcome to Graz!
We wish you a great week. 😎

Here we go!
Graz Security Week is starting any minute now! 🥳

Only 5 more days until the GSW registration closes! ☀️

From September 1–5, immerse yourself in cybersecurity topics, engage with expert speakers, and connect with fellow enthusiasts!

Join us for an action-packed week and register now! 👇
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