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DFG-Project RAINCOAT started

In order to maintain the increasing chip performance while simultaneously advancing miniaturization, manufactures of modern memory- and processing units are increasingly relying on highly optimized, parallelized microarchitectures. With recent microarchitectural attacks like Rowhammer, Spectre and Meltown, it has been demonstrated, that such optimizations may cause unforeseen security risks.

Bachelor Seminar in the Summer Term 2020

In the summer term, we offer a bachelor seminar on Vulnerability Detection and Analysis.

TEE Presentation at INRIA Institute in Rennes, France

A trusted execution environment introduces a hardware-based protection environment for programm code and data. The TEE ensures that neither malicious code nor a compromised operating system can access code and data contained in the TEE. Lucas Davi gave a presentation on the issue of memory corruption attacks in the context of TEEs at the INRIA Institute in Rennes, France.

Re-Entrancy Detection up to Block 8 Million with Sereum

After publishing our Paper on "Sereum: Protecting Existing Smart Contracts Against Re-Entrancy Attacks" at NDSS 2019 we continued running experiments to identify new potential attacks happening in recent blocks of the Ethereum blockchain. We have published the raw data produced by our tool Sereum in a repository on github.com.

Prof. Davi joins Editorial Board of ACM TOPS

Lucas Davi joins as Associate Editor the Editorial Board of the renowned ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS). ACM TOPS publishes high-quality research results in the fields of information and system security and privacy.

Bachelor Seminars in the Winter Term 2019/2020

In the winter term, we offer two bachelor seminars with the topics Malware Analysis and Vulnerability Detection and Analysis.

Run-Time Attack Tutorial in Sibenik, Croatia

Why software errors can undermine crypto algorithms? Tutorial at the Real-World Crypto and Privacy Summer School in Sibenik, Croatia.

Presentation of Sereum at the NDSS Symposium

Michael Rodler presented Sereum, a new method to protect smart contracts, at the NDSS Symposium in San Diego, CA.

Best Poster Award: Automated Evaluation of Fuzzers

The poster about the automated evaluation of fuzzers by Sebastian Surminski, Michael Rodler, and Lucas Davi received the distinguished technical poster award on the NDSS Symposium 2019.