Since smart contracts can autonomously transfer values and rights on a blockchain, they are an attractive target for cyberattacks. Our working group has developed a solution for protecting smart contracts in cooperation with NEC...

The Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) are designed to protect sensitive data and program code from misuse. In collaboration with University of Padova, Italy and TU Darmstadt, Germany, we show the danger of zero-day...

For our Collaborative Research Center CROSSING we are hiring reasearch assistants.

The Excellence Commission yesterday approved the Cluster of Excellence "Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries (CASA)". The cluster is located at the Ruhr University Bochum and brings together scientists from...

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter für den Lehrstuhl SYSSEC gesucht .

The DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) decided on May 17 to fund the second phase of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) CROSSING which was established in 2014 at the TU Darmstadt. TU Darmstadt collaborates with University...

Im Wintersemester 2018/2019 bieten wir eine Projektgruppe zum Thema Vulnerability Discovery und Fuzzing an. Das Thema wird erstmals am Mittwoch, 16.05.2018, 16.30-18 Uhr (Raum SL 012) kurz vorgestellt. Die ausführliche Vorstellung...

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...

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.

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...

Breaking and Fixing Destructive Code Reads

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