Flavien Solt and Johannes Wikner joined as PhD students starting April 2021.
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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.
SecurePay wins the best paper award at EuroS&P
SecurePay won the 2020 best paper award at the annual European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P). Mobile-based 2FA is known to suffer from certain attacks such as BAndroid. The main reason is the fact that the mobile phone is not strongly separated from the browser or an app during authentication. So if the attacker…
Best paper award at MOBILESoft
“Leave My Apps Alone!” won the best paper award at the MOBILESoft conference. This project studies the extent to which Andorid apps secretly (and sometimes unknowingly) retrieve the list of installed apps. The results show that this is unfortunately prevalent with serious privacy concerns for the users. This paper was featured at Ars Technica and…
TRRespass wins the best paper award at S&P
TRRespass won the best paper award at the Security and Privacy conference last week. TRRespass sheds light on the little-known Target Row Refresh protection that is supposed to protect systems against Rowhammer bit flips. The paper shows for the first time that recent systems employ the mitigation inside DRAM chips. A deep analysis shows that…