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Projektgruppe: FETA - Fuzzer Evaluation Through Automation (WS 2018/2019)

Im Wintersemester 2018/2019 bieten wir eine Projektgruppe zum Thema Vulnerability Discovery und Fuzzing an.

Accepted Paper at USENIX Security Symposium 2018

In collaboration with University of Padua (Italy) and TU Darmstadt (Germany), we developed novel software exploits against code running inside Intel's recent security technology Software Guard Extensions (SGX). The results of our research will be published at this year's USENIX Security Symposium.

CTF-Meetup

In cooperation with the Chaospott, a hacker space in Essen, the Chair for Systems Security has instantiated a regular CTF meetup. In this informal meeting, people can chat about CTFs and related topics of IT security.

Upcoming Courses in Summer Term

In the summer term 2018 we again offer our lecture on secure software systems. In this lecture, we investigate software (zero-day) exploitation techniques and defenses, and conduct hands-on security labs. In addition, we also offer a computer security seminar.

Paper Accepted at ACSAC 2017

Breaking and Fixing Destructive Code Reads

Rowhammer Defense Paper Accepted at USENIX Security Symposium 2017

CAn’t Touch This: New Software-Based Defense Against Rowhammer Attacks

Two Papers Accepted at NDSS 2017

Two accepted papers at the renowned 24th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS): "PT-Rand - Practical Mitigation of Data-only Attacks against Page Tables" and "Address Oblivious Code Reuse - On the Effectiveness of Leakage Resilient Diversity"

SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award

SYSSEC Group Leader Lucas Davi has been awarded with the SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016