Our recent efforts in the area of DRAM Security resulted in the discovery of new non-uniform access patterns that can bypass all currently deployed TRR mitigations on recent (LP)DDR4 devices and revive Rowhammer attacks on new devices. Citing the paper: “after almost a decade of research and deployed in-DRAM mitigations, we are perhaps in a…
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Pwnie award for BlindSide
BlindSide won this year’s Pwnie award in the most innovative research category. BlindSide is a result of a multi-year collaboration between researchers from Stevens Institute of Technology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and ETH Zurich (COMSEC). Assume that drug A cures disease A and drug B cures diseases B. If a person has both diseases A and…
Retreat in Graubünden
The first COMSEC group retreat featuring Italian and French cuisines, a dash of Sega Genesis and beautiful Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden.
1st DRAMSec Workshop
Together with Stefan Saroiu (Microsoft), we are organizing the first First Workshop on DRAM Security (DRAMSec) co-located with ISCA 2021. We have an excellent TPC representing industry and academic experts to bring you a very nice program including paper presentations, a keynote and a lively panel. If you are interested in the topic, please consider…
Welcome Flavien Solt and Johannes Wikner!
Flavien Solt and Johannes Wikner joined as PhD students starting April 2021.
Welcome Michele Marazzi and Rafael Dejonghe!
Michele Marazzi joined as a PhD student and Rafael Dejonghe as a research intern starting March 2021.
Best Demo at HWSec’20
Each year at our annual Hardware Security course we hand out an award to the team with the most impressive demo from their work done during the semester. This year the winning team made a demo of an end-to-end attack that mixes the Flip Feng Shui with bit flips on DDR4 using the TRRespass technique.…
Welcome Finn de Ridder!
Finn de Ridder joined as a PhD student starting December 2020.
Pwnie award for TRRespass
The annual Pwnie awards ceremony was held virtually at the BlackHat Europe conference this week. Pwnie awards celebrate some of the best and worst events of the year in the information security community. This year, TRRespass won the Pwnie for the most innovative research. From the awards page: “Awarded to the researcher or team who…
Welcome Patrick Jattke!
Patrick Jattke started as a PhD student as of October 2020.