ISEC TU Graz

🎉 Congratulations, Martin! 🎉

Martin Heckel successfully defended his thesis “Real-World Rowhammer: Understanding and Addressing the Challenges to Rowhammer Attacks” yesterday. 🥳
We wish him the best in his future endeavors!

What a week!
Our move is completed and from now on, you can find us at Sandgasse 38a. 🎉

A big thank you to everyone who made this quick transition possible. 🫶

Our PhD students, Carina Fiedler, Sudheendra Neela and Hannes Weissteiner attended the NDSS Symposium 2026 in San Diego, California, this week to present their papers!

Check them out 👇

Carina Fiedler: Memory Band-Aid: A Principled Rowhammer Defense-in-Depth
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/memory-band-aid-a-principled-rowhammer-defense-in-depth/

Sudheendra Neela: Eviction Notice: Reviving and Advancing Page Cache Attacks
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/eviction-notice-reviving-and-advancing-page-cache-attacks/

Hannes Weissteiner: Continuous User Behavior Monitoring using DNS Cache Timing Attacks
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/continuous-user-behavior-monitoring-using-dns-cache-timing-attacks/

🎉 Congratulations to Martin Unterguggenberger! 🎉

He successfully defended his thesis “Defense-in-Depth Techniques for Memory Safety in Hardware” today. 🎉
We wish him all the best in his future endeavors!

Find us at the TU Graz booth at Educatio Kiállítás until January 10th, to find out about our study programs in information security! ☺️

Find us at the booth at Educatio Budapest until the 10th of January, if you want to find out about studying information security! ☺️

Thank you for joining our Bachelor@ISEC event in October, and congratulations to all award winners! 🍕❤️

Wishing you a wonderful holiday season! We can’t wait to see you all next year for more events at our institute! 🎄

🎉 Congratulations to Benedikt Maderbacher! 🎉

He successfully defended his thesis “Reactive Synthesis Modulo Theories” yesterday. 🎉
We wish him all the best for an amazing future ahead!

Join us tomorrow for the InfoSec + SSD Christmas special, featuring real-world exploits, live hacking of various targets, information leaks, file formats, and a review of the year in security. This event tends to be somewhere between Lecture, Magic Show, Comedy, and Mr. Robot.

📅 December 17th, 2025 | 17:30
📍 Lecture Hall HS i13, Inffeldgasse 16b

To enhance your experience, we're happy to announce that coincidentally a Mulled Wine Stand is happening right in front of HS i13 at the same time, so see you there!

Join us for Rüdiger Ehlers’ talk on polynomial-time minimizable automata for omega-regular languages this Thursday!

His talk summarizes the main ideas of two recently introduced polynomial-time minimizable automaton models for omega-regular languages. Apart from defining these models, the talk also covers their application for the problems of reactive synthesis and probabilistic verification.

📅 December 18th, 2025 | 10:00
📍 ISEC meeting room (IFEG074), Inffeldgasse 16A

👉 https://www.isec.tugraz.at/events/

In September, our researchers attended the Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems ( ) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. While there, they reunited with their former colleagues from TU Graz. 😊