Daniel Gruss
@lavados
#InfoSec University Professor @ #TUGraz. #meltdown, #spectre, #rowhammer, cache attacks, sustainable security. Produced a side channel security sitcom.
Tenure Track Professor in Computer Security/Privacy? Join us @ Graz University of Technology in beautiful southern Austria! I already completed my tenure track here, reply/DM/email with any questions you have! Application deadline is 15.11. tugraz.at/fakultaeten/cs…




Congratulations Dr. @redrabbyte! It was great to have you in our team and I am proud of you that you have completed this journey with an excellent PhD thesis. Your works will have lasting impact on the community and I wish you the best for your next endeavors!

[New Paper] "Towards Explainable Drift Detection and Early Retrain in ML-Based Malware Detection Pipelines" - My first paper with one of my students as the main author. Congrats to Jayesh for his presentation today at DIMVA! Check the paper here: marcusbotacin.github.io/publication/20…
Congratulations Dr. @notimaginary_! It was a pleasure to take part in your journey and I am really proud of you! Outstanding thesis and defense - you absolutely deserve the PhD! All the best for your future! You can all check out Jonas' PhD thesis here: jonasjuffinger.com/phd-thesis.pdf

If you're looking for something to do before or after #dimva25 in #graz, maybe hike up the Schöckl (1445m) bergfex.at/sommer/steierm…

Registration closes tomorrow!
DIMVA ‘25 is coming closer, sign up now! Registration closes on July 1st, 2025. 📅 July 9 to 11, 2025 📍 Graz University of Technology, Austria 👉 dimva.org/dimva2025/
Who would have thought?
Austria is about to legalize state hacking of encrypted chats: WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram. The law would let police plant spyware (called source TKÜ) directly on your phone, bypassing encryption entirely...
Honored to be invited to the Graz security week summer school! Looking forward to the event ☺️
Join the Graz Security Week from Sep 1 to 5! with @sahar_abdelnabi, @jovanbulck, Maria Eichlseder, Georg Fuchsbauer, @sublevado, @fbpierazzi, @kavehrazavi, @chrossow, @realyangzhang on topics system security, side channels, AI Security, and Cryptography: securityweek.at
Join the Graz Security Week from Sep 1 to 5! with @sahar_abdelnabi, @jovanbulck, Maria Eichlseder, Georg Fuchsbauer, @sublevado, @fbpierazzi, @kavehrazavi, @chrossow, @realyangzhang on topics system security, side channels, AI Security, and Cryptography: securityweek.at
I am happy to announce that my first paper has been accepted at USENIX Security! We propose TEEcorrelate, a mitigation that statistically decorrelates reported performance counters from real ones during TEE execution.
Thanks to @v4m1n , Robin Leander Schröder, @notimaginary_ , @notbobbytables , @JanWichelmann , @tomcrypt and @lavados for the great collaboration!
I learnt about side-channels by playing cards. Thank you, @lavados, for creating the side-channel sitcom. It's highly engaging
Historically, the deadline for submitting a Pwnie nomination is always 1 hour before you decided to stop procrastinating and submit! Get em in!
DIMVA takes place July 9 to 11 in Graz! We offer diversity grants for participants who identify as women, non-binary, or part of other underrepresented groups in IT security. Each grant covers up to 800€. Applications are open until May 31, 2025. See dimva.org/dimva2025/#div…
I just noticed I hadn't posted this yet: Eva-Maria Mayer, a bachelor's student at @FH_StPoelten cosupervised by @leotanczt (@uclcs) and myself, succeeded in getting her bachelor's thesis published at @PET_Symposium! 🎉 doi.org/10.56553/popet… /1
✅ Write constant-time crypto code ☠️ Compiler introduces timing side-channels Do Compilers Break Constant-time Guarantees? fc25.ifca.ai/preproceedings… TL;DR: Yes!🥲 👏👏👏Great work @misc0110 & team!
Last week, we sent out the notifications for round #2. 📨 Congratulations to the authors of the accepted papers! Now that you’ve overcome the biggest hurdle don’t forget to register for the conference! 👉 dimva.org/dimva2025
I'm very happy to announce our new Cohere+Reload: Re-enabling High-Resolution Cache Attacks on AMD SEV-SNP was accepted at DIMVA 2025! In it @NS_Raghav, @lavados and I investigate AMD's ciphertext coherence mechanism, more on bsky.app/profile/giner.…
Enjoy our great speakers in action with Keynotes by Ben Stock – @kcotsneb and Daniel Gruss – @lavados. Playlist of #RuhrSec 2025 – 14 Talks 🌐 youtube.com/playlist?list=… Our YouTube Channel – Like and Subscribe 👍 🌐 youtube.com/@hackmanit-it-… #itsecurity #itsicherheit
Here are the details about the AMD Signature verification vulnerability we worked on, Enjoy! bughunters.google.com/blog/542484235…
Last week, @lavados and his PhD students went to Germany and visited #µASC and @ruhrsec! PhD candidate @notimaginary_ presented his paper “An Analysis of HMB-based SSD #Rowhammer”. 📑👇 uasc.cc/proceedings25/… #Microarchitecture #security #informationsecurity #cybersecurity