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WE ARE ISEC: The Institute of Information Security at #TUGraz.
We're here to share news and insights into our cybersecurity research and inform you about upcoming events at/around the institute.

#cybersecurity #ISEC
This September, we had the privilege of hosting the annual 25th International Conference on Runtime Verification (RV) at TU Graz! 😎🎉

#RV25 #conference #graz
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎉 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!
October 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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
October 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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
October 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🎉 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!
October 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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...
September 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Save the date! 📌

Next Graz Security Week:
September 07–11, 2026

#GSW26 #cybersecurity #summerschool
September 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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
September 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Georg Fuchsbauer concluded our summer school by giving a great in-depth talk on 'Anonymous (Bitcoin) payments from blind signatures'.

#GSW25 #bitcoin #blockchain
September 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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
September 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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
September 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
In the Afternoon, our PhD students hosted the Software Side-Channels Lab, where the participants experimented with various microarchitectural side channels.

#GSW25 #Software #SideChannel
September 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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
September 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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
September 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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
September 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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
September 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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
September 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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
September 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Today, we started with a talk by Yang Zhang about how large generative models can be abused for various malicious porpoises.

#GSW25 #AI
September 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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
September 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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
September 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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
September 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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
September 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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
September 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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
September 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM