Daniel Gruss

I'm an associate professor in the Secure Systems group (Team Gruss/CoreSec) at the Graz University of Technology, Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications. In my research I explore software-based microarchitectural attacks and operating system features. I teach undergraduate courses such as Operating Systems (see Hall of Fame), and System-Level Programming, and graduate courses such as Embedded Security, and Security Aspects in Software Development.

Publications

2023 August	Side-Channel Attacks on Optane Persistent Memory Sihang Liu, Suraaj Kanniwadi, Martin Schwarzl, Andreas Kogler, Daniel Gruss, Samira Khan. 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2023. [Conference]
June	Layered Binary Templating Martin Schwarzl, Erik Kraft, Daniel Gruss. ACNS, Kyoto, Japan, June 19-22, 2023. [Conference]
May	Practical Timing Side-Channel Attacks on Memory Compression Martin Schwarzl, Pietro Borrello, Gururaj Sailshwar, Hanna Müller, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss. S&P'23, San Francisco, California, USA, May 22-26, 2023. [Conference]
	Scatter and Split Securely: Defeating Cache Contention and Occupancy Attacks Lukas Giner, Stefan Steinegger, Antoon Purnal, Maria Eichlseder, Thomas Unterluggauer, Stefan Mangard, Daniel Gruss. S&P'23, San Francisco, California, USA, May 22-26, 2023. [Conference]
	CSI:Rowhammer - Cryptographic Security and Integrity against Rowhammer Jonas Juffinger, Lukas Lamster, Andreas Kogler, Maria Eichlseder, Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss. S&P'23, San Francisco, California, USA, May 22-26, 2023. [Conference]
	SQUIP: Exploiting the Scheduler Queue Contention Side Channel Stefan Gast, Jonas Juffinger, Martin Schwarzl, Gururaj Saileshwar, Andreas Kogler, Simone Franza, Markus Köstl, Daniel Gruss. S&P'23, San Francisco, California, USA, May 22-26, 2023. [Conference]
2022 September	Robust and Scalable Process Isolation against Spectre in the Cloud Martin Schwarzl, Pietro Borrello, Andreas Kogler, Kenton Varda, Thomas Schuster, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss. ESORICS, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 26-30, 2022 (AR: 18.5%). [Conference]
August	Half-Double: Hammering From the Next Row Over Andreas Kogler, Jonas Juffinger, Salman Qazi, Yoongu Kim, Moritz Lipp, Nicolas Boichat, Eric Shiu, Mattias Nissler, Daniel Gruss. 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, August 10-12, 2022 (AR: 18.1%). [Conference]
	ÆPIC Leak: Architecturally Leaking Uninitialized Data from the Microarchitecture Pietro Borrello, Andreas Kogler, Martin Schwarzl, Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss, Michael Schwarz. 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, August 10-12, 2022 (AR: 18.1%). [Conference]
	Minefield: A Software-only Protection for SGX Enclaves against DVFS Attacks Andreas Kogler, Daniel Gruss, Michael Schwarz. 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, August 10-12, 2022 (AR: 18.1%). [Conference]
	AMD Prefetch Attacks through Power and Time Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss, Michael Schwarz. 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, August 10-12, 2022 (AR: 18.1%). [Conference]
	Rapid Prototyping for Microarchitectural Attacks Catherine Easdon, Michael Schwarz, Martin Schwarzl, Daniel Gruss. 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, August 10-12, 2022 (AR: 18.1%). [Conference]
	Repurposing Segmentation as a Practical LVI-NULL Mitigation in SGX Lukas Giner, Andreas Kogler, Claudio Canella, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss. 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, August 10-12, 2022 (AR: 18.1%). [Conference]
May	Finding and Exploiting CPU Features using MSR Templating Andreas Kogler, Daniel Weber, Martin Haubenwallner, Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss, Michael Schwarz. S&P'22, San Francisco, California, USA, May 23-26, 2022 (AR: 14.6%). [Conference]
April	Remote Memory-Deduplication Attacks Martin Schwarzl, Erik Kraft, Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss. NDSS'22, San Diego, California, USA, April 24-28, 2022 (AR: 16.2%). [Conference]
February	Systematic Analysis of Programming Languages and Their Execution Environments for Spectre Attacks Amir Naseredini, Stefan Gast, Martin Schwarzl, Pedro Miguel Sousa Bernardo, Amel Smajic, Claudio Canella, Martin Berger, Daniel Gruss. ICISSP'22, Virtual, February 9-11, 2022. [Conference]
2021 November	Automating Seccomp Filter Generation for Linux Applications Claudio Canella, Mario Werner, Daniel Gruss, Michael Schwarz. CCSW'21, Seoul, Korea (AR: 32.3%). [Proceedings]
May	PLATYPUS: With Great Power comes Great Leakage Moritz Lipp, Andreas Kogler, David Oswald, Michael Schwarz, Catherine Easdon, Claudio Canella, Daniel Gruss. S&P'21, San Francisco, California, USA, May 23-27, 2021 (AR: 10.0%). [Conference]
	Systematic Analysis of Randomization-based Protected Cache Architectures Antoon Purnal, Lukas Giner, Daniel Gruss, Ingrid Verbauwhede. S&P'21, San Francisco, California, USA, May 23-27, 2021 (AR: 10.0%). [Conference]
March	Speculative Dereferencing of Registers: Reviving Foreshadow Martin Schwarzl, Thomas Schuster, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss. FC'21, Grenada, March 1-5, 2021 (AR: 24.7%). [Program]
	Specfuscator: Evaluating Branch Removal as a Spectre Mitigation Martin Schwarzl, Canella Claudio, Daniel Gruss, Michael Schwarz. FC'21, Grenada, March 1-5, 2021 (AR: 24.7%). [Program]
2020 November	Transient-Execution Attacks Daniel Gruss. Habilitation Thesis, Graz University of Technology. June 12, 2020. Venia Docendi: November 27, 2020. [Part I only]
September	Plundervolt: How a Little Bit of Undervolting Can Create a Lot of Trouble Kit Murdock, David Oswald, Flavio D. Garcia, Jo Van Bulck, Daniel Gruss, Frank Piessens. IEEE Security & Privacy, Vol. 18, No. 5, Sept.-Oct. 2020. [Journal]
	How Trusted Execution Environments Fuel Research on Microarchitectural Attacks Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss. IEEE Security & Privacy, Vol. 18, No. 5, Sept.-Oct. 2020. [Journal]
	The Evolution of Transient-Execution Attacks Claudio Canella, Khaled N. Khasawneh, Daniel Gruss. GLSVLSI'20, Beijing, China, September 8-11, 2020. [Conference]
	Evolution of Defenses against Transient-Execution Attacks Claudio Canella, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Daniel Gruss, Khaled N. Khasawneh. GLSVLSI'20, Beijing, China, September 8-11, 2020. [Conference]
August	Donky: Domain Keys - Efficient In-Process Isolation for RISC-V and x86 David Schrammel, Samuel Weiser, Stefan Steinegger, Martin Schwarzl, Michael Schwarz, Stefan Mangard, Daniel Gruss. 29th USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, August 12-14, 2020 (AR: 16.1%). [Conference]
July	Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution Paul Kocher, Jann Horn, Anders Fogh, Daniel Genkin, Daniel Gruss, Werner Haas, Mike Hamburg, Moritz Lipp, Stefan Mangard, Thomas Prescher, Michael Schwarz, Yuval Yarom. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 63 No. 7, Pages 93-101. [Journal]
June	Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, Thomas Prescher, Werner Haas, Anders Fogh, Jann Horn, Stefan Mangard, Paul Kocher, Daniel Genkin, Yuval Yarom, Mike Hamburg, Raoul Strackx. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 63 No. 6, Pages 46-56. [Journal]
	Nethammer: Inducing Rowhammer Faults through Network Requests Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Lukas Raab, Lukas Lamster, Misiker Tadesse Aga, Clémentine Maurice, Daniel Gruss. SILM Workshop'20, Genova, Italy, June 19, 2020. [Conference Program] [Pre-print (May'18)]
	Take A Way: Exploring the Security Implications of AMD's Cache Way Predictors Moritz Lipp, Vedad Hadzic, Michael Schwarz, Arthur Perais, Clémentine Maurice, Daniel Gruss. AsiaCCS'20, Taipei, Taiwan, June 1-5, 2020 (AR: 21.8%). [Conference]
	KASLR: Break It, Fix It, Repeat Claudio Canella, Michael Schwarz, Martin Haubenwallner, Martin Schwarzl, Daniel Gruss. AsiaCCS'20, Taipei, Taiwan, June 1-5, 2020 (AR: 21.8%). [Conference]
May	LVI: Hijacking Transient Execution through Microarchitectural Load Value Injection Jo Van Bulck, Daniel Moghimi, Michael Schwarz, Moritz Lipp, Marina Minkin, Daniel Genkin, Yuval Yarom, Berk Sunar, Daniel Gruss, Frank Piessens. S&P'20, San Francisco, California, USA, May 18-20, 2020 (12.3%). [Website] [Conference]
	Plundervolt: Software-based Fault Injection Attacks against Intel SGX Kit Murdock, David Oswald, Flavio D. Garcia, Jo Van Bulck, Daniel Gruss, Frank Piessens. S&P'20, San Francisco, California, USA, May 18-20, 2020 (12.3%). [Conference]
	RAMBleed: Reading Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them Andrew Kwong, Daniel Genkin, Daniel Gruss, Yuval Yarom. S&P'20, San Francisco, California, USA, May 18-20, 2020 (AR: 12.3%). [Conference]
February	ConTExT: A Generic Approach for Mitigating Spectre Michael Schwarz, Moritz Lipp, Claudio Canella, Robert Schilling, Florian Kargl, Daniel Gruss. NDSS'20, San Diego, California, USA, February 23-26, 2020 (AR 17.4%). [Conference]
January	Malware Guard Extension: abusing Intel SGX to conceal cache attacks Michael Schwarz, Samuel Weiser, Daniel Gruss, Clémentine Maurice, Stefan Mangard. SpringerOpen Cybersecurity, Vol. 3. [Journals]
2019 November	ZombieLoad: Cross-Privilege-Boundary Data Sampling Michael Schwarz, Moritz Lipp, Daniel Moghimi, Jo Van Bulck, Julian Stecklina, Thomas Prescher, Daniel Gruss. CCS'19, London, UK, November 11-15, 2019 (AR: 15.7%). [Pre-print (May'19)] [Conference]
	Page Cache Attacks Daniel Gruss, Erik Kraft, Trishita Tiwari, Michael Schwarz, Ari Trachtenberg, Jason Hennessey, Alex Ionescu, Anders Fogh. CCS'19, London, UK, November 11-15, 2019 (AR: 15.7%). [Conference]
	Fallout: Leaking Data on Meltdown-resistant CPUs Claudio Canella, Daniel Genkin, Lukas Giner, Daniel Gruss, Moritz Lipp, Marina Minkin, Daniel Moghimi, Frank Piessens, Michael Schwarz, Berk Sunar, Jo Van Bulck, Yuval Yarom. CCS'19, London, UK, November 11-15, 2019 (AR: 15.7%). [Conference]
September	SGXJail: Defeating Enclave Malware via Confinement Samuel Weiser, Luca Mayr, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss. RAID'19, Beijing, China, September 23-25, 2019 (AR: 22.3%). [Conference]
	NetSpectre: Read Arbitrary Memory over Network Michael Schwarz, Martin Schwarzl, Moritz Lipp, Jon Masters, Daniel Gruss. ESORICS'19, Luxembourg, September 23-27, 2019 (AR: 19.5%). [Conference] [Pre-print (Jul'18)]
August	Wait a Second: Playing Hanabi without Giving Hints Markus Eger, Daniel Gruss. Foundations of Digital Games 2019, San Luis Obispo, California, USA, August 26-30, 2019 (AR: 31.7%). [Conference]
	ScatterCache: Thwarting Cache Attacks via Cache Set Randomization Mario Werner, Thomas Unterluggauer, Lukas Giner, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, Stefan Mangard. 28th USENIX Security Symposium, Santa Clara, California, USA, August 14-16, 2019 (AR: 15.7%). [Conference]
	A Systematic Evaluation of Transient Execution Attacks and Defenses Claudio Canella, Jo Van Bulck, Michael Schwarz, Moritz Lipp, Benjamin von Berg, Philipp Ortner, Frank Piessens, Dmitry Evtyushkin, Daniel Gruss. 28th USENIX Security Symposium, Santa Clara, California, USA, August 14-16, 2019 (AR: 15.7%). [Conference] [Pre-print (Nov'18)]
June	Practical Enclave Malware with Intel SGX Michael Schwarz, Samuel Weiser, Daniel Gruss. DIMVA'19, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 19-20, 2019 (AR: 28.8%). [Conference]
May	Fallout: Reading Kernel Writes From User Space Marina Minkin, Daniel Moghimi, Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Jo Van Bulck, Daniel Genkin, Daniel Gruss, Frank Piessens, Berk Sunar, Yuval Yarom. arXiv, 1905.12701. [Pre-print (May'19)]
	Store-to-Leak Forwarding: Leaking Data on Meltdown-resistant CPUs Michael Schwarz, Claudio Canella, Lukas Giner, Daniel Gruss. arXiv, 1905.05725. [Pre-print (May'19)]
	Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution Paul Kocher, Jann Horn, Anders Fogh, Daniel Genkin, Daniel Gruss, Werner Haas, Mike Hamburg, Moritz Lipp, Stefan Mangard, Thomas Prescher, Michael Schwarz, Yuval Yarom. S&P'19, Best Paper, San Francisco, California, USA, May 20-22, 2019 (AR: 11.5%). [Conference] [Pre-print (Jan'18)] [Wikipedia]
February	JavaScript Template Attacks: Automatically Inferring Host Information for Targeted Exploits Michael Schwarz, Florian Lackner, Daniel Gruss. NDSS'19, San Diego, California, USA, February 24-27, 2019 (AR: 17.1%). [Conference]
2018 December	Kernel Isolation: From an Academic Idea to an Efficient Patch for Every Computer Daniel Gruss, Dave Hansen, Brendan Gregg. USENIX ;login, issue: Winter 2018, Vol. 43, No. 4. [Issue]
November	Software-based microarchitectural attacks Daniel Gruss. it - Information Technology, Volume 60: Issue 5-6, November 2018. [DOI]
September	Software-basierte Mikroarchitekturangriffe Daniel Gruss. Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2017, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn, Germany, 2018. Presented at INFORMATIK2018 in Berlin, Germany, September 26-27, 2018. [LNI Digital Library]
August	Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, Thomas Prescher, Werner Haas, Anders Fogh, Jann Horn, Stefan Mangard, Paul Kocher, Daniel Genkin, Yuval Yarom, Mike Hamburg. 27th USENIX Security Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, August 15-17, 2018 (AR: 19.2%). [Conference] [Code Examples] [Wikipedia]
June	Automated Detection, Exploitation, and Elimination of Double-Fetch Bugs using Modern CPU Features Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, Moritz Lipp, Clémentine Maurice, Thomas Schuster, Anders Fogh, Stefan Mangard. AsiaCCS'18, Songdo, Incheon, Korea, Jun 4-8, 2018 (AR: 20.0%). [Conference]
	Use-After-FreeMail: Generalizing the Use-After-Free Problem and Applying it to Email Services Daniel Gruss, Michael Schwarz, Matthias Wübbeling, Simon Guggi, Timo Malderle, Stefan More, Moritz Lipp. AsiaCCS'18, Songdo, Incheon, Korea, Jun 4-8, 2018 (AR: 20.0%). [Conference]
	ProcHarvester: Fully Automated Analysis of Procfs Side-Channel Leaks on Android Raphael Spreitzer, Felix Kirchengast, Daniel Gruss, Stefan Mangard. AsiaCCS'18, Songdo, Incheon, Korea, Jun 4-8, 2018 (AR: 20.0%). [Conference]
May	Another Flip in the Wall of Rowhammer Defenses Daniel Gruss, Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Genkin, Jonas Juffinger, Sioli O'Connell, Wolfgang Schoechl, Yuval Yarom. S&P'18, San Francisco, California, USA, May 21-23, 2018 (AR: 11.5%). [Conference] [Code Examples] [Pre-print (Oct'17)]
February	JavaScript Zero: Real JavaScript and Zero Side-Channel Attacks Michael Schwarz, Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss. NDSS'18, San Diego, California, USA, February 18-21, 2018 (AR: 21.5%). [Program] [Github]
	KeyDrown: Eliminating Software-Based Keystroke Timing Side-Channel Attacks Michael Schwarz, Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss, Samuel Weiser, Clémentine Maurice, Raphael Spreitzer, Stefan Mangard. NDSS'18, San Diego, California, USA, February 18-21, 2018 (AR: 21.5%). [Program] [Github] [Pre-print (Jun'17)]
2017 September	Practical Keystroke Timing Attacks in Sandboxed JavaScript Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss, Michael Schwarz, David Bidner, Clémentine Maurice, Stefan Mangard. ESORICS'17, Oslo, Norway, September 11-15, 2017 (AR: 15.9%). [Program]
August	Strong and Efficient Cache Side-Channel Protection using Hardware Transactional Memory Daniel Gruss, Julian Lettner, Felix Schuster, Olya Ohrimenko, Istvan Haller, Manuel Costa. 26th USENIX Security Symposium, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 16-18, 2017 (AR: 16.3%). [Session]
July	KASLR is Dead: Long Live KASLR Daniel Gruss, Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Richard Fellner, Clémentine Maurice, Stefan Mangard. ESSoS'17, Bonn, Germany, July 2017 (AR: 46.9%). [Program] [Github] [Wikipedia]
	Malware Guard Extension: Using SGX to Conceal Cache Attacks Michael Schwarz, Samuel Weiser, Daniel Gruss, Clémentine Maurice, Stefan Mangard. DIMVA'17, Bonn, Germany, July 6-7, 2017 (AR: 26.9%). [Program] [Slides] [Extended Version]
June	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks Daniel Gruss. PhD Thesis, Graz University of Technology. June 14, 2017. [Slides] [Part I only]
April	Fantastic Timers and Where to Find Them: High-Resolution Microarchitectural Attacks in JavaScript Michael Schwarz, Clémentine Maurice, Daniel Gruss, Stefan Mangard. FC'17, Malta, April 2017 (AR: 26.5%). [Program] [Slides]
February	Hello from the Other Side: SSH over Robust Cache Covert Channels in the Cloud Clémentine Maurice, Manuel Weber, Michael Schwarz, Lukas Giner, Daniel Gruss, Carlo Alberto Boano, Kay Römer, Stefan Mangard. NDSS'17, San Diego, California, USA, February 2017 (AR: 16.1%). [Session] [Slides] [Github] [BlackHat Asia] [BlackHat Asia Recording] [Live Demo] [Pwnie Award for Best Song]
2016 October	Prefetch Side-Channel Attacks: Bypassing SMAP and Kernel ASLR Daniel Gruss, Anders Fogh, Clémentine Maurice, Moritz Lipp, Stefan Mangard. CCS'16, Vienna, Austria, October 24-28, 2016 (AR: 16.4%). [Slides] [Github]
	Drammer: Deterministic Rowhammer Attacks on Mobile Platforms Victor van der Veen, Yanick Fratantonio, Martina Lindorfer, Daniel Gruss, Clementine Maurice, Giovanni Vigna, Herbert Bos, Kaveh Razavi, Cristiano Giuffrida. CCS'16, Vienna, Austria, October 24-28, 2016 (AR: 16.4%). [Project Website]
August	DRAMA: Exploiting DRAM Addressing for Cross-CPU Attacks Peter Pessl, Daniel Gruss, Clémentine Maurice, Michael Schwarz, Stefan Mangard. 25th USENIX Security Symposium, Austin, Texas, USA, August 10-12, 2016 (AR: 15.6%). [Session] [Pre-print (Nov'15)] [Slides] [Github] [BlackHat Europe]
	ARMageddon: Cache Attacks on Mobile Devices Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss, Raphael Spreitzer, Clémentine Maurice, Stefan Mangard. 25th USENIX Security Symposium, Austin, Texas, USA, August 10-12, 2016 (AR: 15.6%). [Session] [Pre-print (Nov'15)] [Slides] [Github] [BlackHat Europe]
July	Rowhammer.js: A Remote Software-Induced Fault Attack in JavaScript Daniel Gruss, Clémentine Maurice, Stefan Mangard. DIMVA'16, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, July 7-8, 2016 (AR: 31.8%). [Conference] [Github] [Pre-print (Jul'15)] [Golem] [Slate] [Heise] [c't] [Vice] [Wikipedia]
	Flush+Flush: A Fast and Stealthy Cache Attack Daniel Gruss, Clémentine Maurice, Klaus Wagner, Stefan Mangard. DIMVA'16, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, July 7-8, 2016 (AR: 31.8%). [Conference] [Pre-print (Nov'15)] [Github]
2015 September	Practical Memory Deduplication Attacks in Sandboxed Javascript Daniel Gruss, David Bidner, Stefan Mangard. ESORICS'15, Vienna, Austria, September 23-25, 2015 (AR: 20.1%). [Conference] [Slides] [PoC by David Bidner]
August	Cache Template Attacks: Automating Attacks on Inclusive Last-Level Caches Daniel Gruss, Raphael Spreitzer, Stefan Mangard. 24th USENIX Security Symposium, Washington, D.C., USA, August 12-14, 2015 (AR: 15.7%). [Session] [Lightning Talk] [Slides] [Github]

Awards

Presentations

2021 September	Rowhammer is here to stay Talk @ DEEP conference, Virtual (Petrčane, Croatia), September 29-30, 2021
June	Platypus Talk @ Red Hat Research Days 2021, Virtual, June 23, 2021
	Inspectre Gadget Talk @ ICHSA 2021, Virtual (Beer Sheva, Israel), June 1-2, 2021
2020 November	Faulting Hardware from Software Talk @ SBA Research 2020, Virtual (Vienna, Austria), November 23, 2020
October	Complexity Killed Security Keynote @ BlackHat Asia 2020, Virtual (Marina Bay Sands, Singapore), September 29 - October 2, 2020
	Page Cache Attacks: Microarchitectural Attacks on Flawless Hardware Talk @ BlackHat Asia 2020, Virtual (Marina Bay Sands, Singapore), September 29 - October 2, 2020
September	Faulting Hardware from Software Keynote @ FDTC 2020, Virtual, September 13, 2020
August	Panel: The Joy of Coordinating Vulnerability Disclosure Panelist @ DEF CON 2020, Virtual (Las Vegas, USA), August 6 - August 9, 2020
	Plundervolt: Flipping Bits from Software without Rowhammer Talk @ BlackHat USA 2020, Virtual (Las Vegas, USA), August 1 - August 6, 2020
April	LVI: Hijacking Transient Execution with Load Value Injection Talk @ Hardwear.io Virtual Con, Online, April 30, 2020
Janaury	Leaky Processors: Lessons from Spectre, Meltdown, and Foreshadow Talk @ Redhat Research Day Europe, Brno, Czech Republic, January 23, 2020
2019 December	ZombieLoad Attack Talk @ 36th Chaos Communication Congress, Leipzig, Germany, December 27-30, 2019
	Plundervolt: Flipping Bits from Software without Rowhammer Talk @ 36th Chaos Communication Congress, Leipzig, Germany, December 27-30, 2019
	Side Channels and Transient Execution Attacks Guest Talk @ Spritz Group, Padova, Italy, December 11, 2019
	Side Channels and Transient Execution Attacks Guest Talk @ IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria, December 5, 2019
November	Panel: Trade-offs in Cyber Security: what is the cost of security? Panelist @ CYSARM, London, UK, November 15, 2019
	Panel: Speculative Execution Attacks and Cloud Security Panelist @ ACM CCSW, London, UK, November 11, 2019
October	Meltdown, Spectre, ZombieLoad Invited Talk @ IKT-Sicherheitskonferenz, Fürstenfeld, Austria, October 1-2, 2019
	SGX - Secure Enclaves als Angriffsvektor Invited Talk @ IKT-Sicherheitskonferenz, Fürstenfeld, Austria, October 1-2, 2019
September	Cards Against Confusion Talk @ SHARD Workshop, Leiden, Netherlands, September 23-27, 2019
	Jumping Abstraction Layers: Microarchitectural Attacks in JavaScript Guest Talk @ KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, September 18, 2019
	Side Channels and Transient Execution Attacks Keynote @ No Hat 2019, Bergamo, Italy, September 14, 2019
	Hardware-Software Co-Design against Microarchitectural Attacks Guest Talk @ KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, September 4, 2019
August	Microarchitectural Attacks Talk / Lab @ FOSAD Summer School, Bertinoro, Italy, August 26-30, 2019
July	Side Channels and Transient Execution Attacks Guest Talk @ University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, July 30, 2019
	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks and Operating System Features Keynote @ International Conference on Software Security and Assurance, St. Pölten, Austria, July 25-26, 2019
	Mitigation Plans for Microarchitectural Attacks Talk @ Security Group, ARM Research, Cambridge, UK, July 15, 2019
	Transient Execution Attacks Guest Talk @ Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, July 11, 2019
	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks Invited Talk @ Huawei Trusted Computing Workshop, Leuven, Belgium, July 8, 2019
June	Transient Execution Attacks Invited Talk @ Summer School on Real-World Crypto and Privacy, Šibenik, Croatia, June 17-21, 2019
	Introduction to Microarchitectural Attacks Invited Talk @ Summer School on Real-World Crypto and Privacy, Šibenik, Croatia, June 17-21, 2019
	Hardware-Software Co-Design to Eliminate Cache Leakage Talk @ Intel Side Channel Academic Program (SCAP) Annual Meeting, Hillsboro, OR, US, June 11-13, 2019
May	Microarchitectural Attacks Training @ RuhrSec, Bochum, Germany, May 27-29, 2019
	Meltdown, Spectre, ZombieLoad Guest Talk @ VOICE CISO Meeting Berlin, Graz, Austria, May 16, 2019
April	A Christmas Carol - The Spectres of the Past, Present, and Future Talk @ Grazer Linuxtage, Graz, Austria, April 26-27, 2019
March	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks: What do we learn from Meltdown and Spectre? Invited Talk @ #LetsCluster, Graz, Austria, March 26, 2019
	How the Hardware undermines Software Security Keynote @ ACM EuroSec'19 Workshop, Dresden, Germany, March 25, 2019
February	Microarchitectural Attacks and Beyond Guest Talk @ CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, February 21, 2019
	Microarchitectural Security Keynote @ Boston University Red Hat Collaboratory Microarchitecture Workshop, Boston, MA, USA, February 20, 2019
January	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks Guest Talk @ SBAPrime, Vienna, Austria, January 23, 2019
2018 December	A Christmas Carol - The Spectres of the Past, Present, and Future Talk @ 35th Chaos Communication Congress, Leipzig, Germany, December 27-30, 2018
	Meltdown, Spectre and Beyond Invited Talk @ The Digital Society Conference 2018: Empowering Ecosystems, Berlin, Germany, December 10-11, 2018
November	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks: What do we learn from Meltdown and Spectre? Keynote @ inday students 2018, Innsbruck, Austria, November 29, 2018
	Transient Execution Attacks: Meltdown, Spectre, and how to mitigate them Invited Talk @ German OWASP Day 2018, Muenster, Germany, November 20, 2018
October	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks: What do we learn from Meltdown and Spectre? Invited Talk @ Aarhus University CS Colloqium, Aarhus, Denmark, October 26, 2018
September	Recent Developments in Microarchitectural Attacks: Meltdown, Spectre, and Rowhammer Invited Talk @ Conference on Cryptanalysis in Ubiquitous Computing Systems (CRYPTACUS), Rennes, France, September 18 - September 20, 2018
	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks: Meltdown and Spectre Invited Talk @ Riscure User Workshop 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 13 - September 14, 2018
	Transient Execution Attacks Guest Talk @ VUsec, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 12, 2018
	(Why) Are Microarchitectural Attacks Really Different than Physical Side-Channel Attacks? Invited Talk @ CHES (Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems) 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 9 - September 12, 2018
	Side-Channel Lab Lab @ Graz Security Week 2018, Graz, Austria, September 3 - September 7, 2018
	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks Invited Talk @ Graz Security Week 2018, Graz, Austria, September 3 - September 7, 2018
	Hacking (in) Games - Protecting your Games and your Gamers Invited Talk @ Game Dev Days Graz 2018, Graz, Austria, August 31 - September 2, 2018
August	Another Flip in the Row Talk @ BlackHat USA 2018, Las Vegas, USA, August 4 - August 9, 2018
	Meltdown: Basics, Details, Consequences Talk @ BlackHat USA 2018, Las Vegas, USA, August 4 - August 9, 2018
June	Microarchitectural Attacks: From the Basics to Arbitrary Read and Write Primitives without any Software Bugs Talk @ Radboud University Digital Security Group, Nijmegen, Netherlands, June 19, 2018
	Microarchitectural Attacks: From the Basics to Arbitrary Read and Write Primitives without any Software Bugs Invited Talk @ Austrian Computer Science Day, Salzburg, Austria, June 15, 2018
	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks Shortlisted Candidate Talk @ Forum Technik und Gesellschaft, Received the Graz University of Technology Förderpreis 2017/18 (Best Dissertation), Graz, Austria, June 6, 2018
May	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks Shortlisted Candidate Talk @ Oesterreichische Computer Gesellschaft, Received the Heinz Zemanek Preis for the Best Dissertation in Computer Science in Austria in 2016/2017, Vienna, Austria, May 30, 2018
	Fehlerfreie Software und trotzdem unsicher? Eine Einführung in die Mikroarchitekturangriffe anhand von Meltdown, Spectre, und Rowhammer Talk @ Monat der freien Bildung, Graz, Austria, May 25, 2018
	The Story of Meltdown and Spectre Talk @ RuhrSec, Bochum, Germany, May 17-18, 2018
	Software-basierte Mikroarchitekturangriffe Shortlisted Candidate Talk @ GI-Dissertationspreis 2017 Kolloquium, Dagstuhl, Germany, May 6-9, 2018
April	Microarchitectural Attacks: Meltdown and Spectre Invited Talk @ Natixis Open Day, Porto, Portugal, April 21, 2018
	How to have a Meltdown Training @ CRYPTACUS Training School, Azores, Portugal, April 16-20, 2018
	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks Invited Talk @ CRYPTACUS Training School, Azores, Portugal, April 16-20, 2018
	Microarchitectural Attacks: From the Basics to Arbitrary Read and Write Primitives without any Software Bugs Invited Talk @ Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS), Raleigh, NC, USA, April 10-11, 2018
March	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks Invited Talk @ RISE Spring School, Cambridge, UK, March 28-29, 2018
	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks: What do we learn from Meltdown and Spectre? Guest Talk @ Apple, Cupertino, California, USA, March 27, 2018
	Microarchitectural Attacks and the Case of Meltdown and Spectre Invited Talk @ Insomni'hack, Geneva, Switzerland, March 22-23, 2018
	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks Talk @ Security and Privacy Group, University of Birmingham, UK, March 21, 2018
	Microarchitectural Attacks: Meltdown, Spectre, Rowhammer Talk @ King's College London, UK, March 20, 2018
	Microarchitectural Attacks: From the Basics to Arbitrary Read and Write Primitives without any Software Bugs Talk @ CISPA Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany, March 16, 2018
	Microarchitectural Attacks: Meltdown, Spectre, Rowhammer Invited Talk @ Austrian Trust Circle der öffentlichen Verwaltung, Salzburg, Austria, March 1, 2018
February	Kurzüberblick zu Meltdown und Spectre Invited Talk @ Digitaldialog, Graz, Austria, February 27, 2018
	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks Invited Talk @ NeCS Cyber Security Winter School, Trento, Italy, February 12-16, 2018
	Microarchitectural Attacks: From the Basics to Arbitrary Read and Write Primitives Guest Talk @ Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, February 05, 2018
January	Brief Overview on Meltdown and Spectre Talk @ European Government CERT Meeting, Vienna, Austria, January 26, 2018
	Microarchitectural Attacks and Defenses in JavaScript Guest Talk @ Google, Munich, Germany, January 25, 2018
	Beyond Belief: The Case of Spectre and Meltdown Keynote @ BlueHat IL, Tel Aviv, Israel, January 24, 2018
	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks Invited Talk @ CERT.at IT Security Stammtisch, Vienna, Austria, January 10, 2018
2017 November	Why SGX design flaws hinder its application in cloud computing Invited Talk @ Workshop on Cryptography for the Internet of Things and Cloud, Bochum, Germany, November 06-07, 2017
October	Oh my Cache! 2 - More fun with caches. Guest Talk @ QSP Lab, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, October 13, 2017
September	Cash Attacks on SGX Invited Talk @ Breaking Bitcoin, Paris, France, September 09-10, 2017
June	Rowhammer Attacks: An Extended Walkthrough Guide Guest Talk @ SBA Research, Vienna, Austria, June 27, 2017
May	How processor performance is tied to side-channel leakage: With great speed comes great leakage Talk @ Qualcomm Mobile Security Summit, San Diego, CA, USA, May 18-19, 2017
	Rowhammer Attacks: A Walkthrough Guide Talk @ RuhrSec, Bochum, Germany, May 4-5, 2017
2016 October	Microarchitectural Incontinence - You would leak too if you were so fast! Invited talk @ 13th Hacktivity conference, Budapest, Hungary, October 21-22, 2016
	Oh my Cache! - Introduction to having fun with your Cache. Guest Talk @ QSP Lab, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, October 21, 2016
August	Microarchitectural Attacks (and what we can do against them) Guest Talk @ Constructive Security Group, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, August 25, 2016
	Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks Guest Talk @ Qualcomm, San Diego, California, USA, August 8, 2016
	Using Undocumented CPU Behavior to See into Kernel Mode and Break KASLR in the Process Talk @ BlackHat USA 2016, Las Vegas, USA, July 30 - August 4, 2016
April	Cache Side-Channel Attacks and the case of Rowhammer Invited talk @ RuhrSec, Bochum, Germany, April 28-29, 2016
2015 December	Rowhammer.js: Root privileges for web apps? Talk @ 32nd Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg, Germany, December 27-30, 2015
November	Software-based Side-Channel and Fault Attacks Invited Talk @ MooseCon 2015, Palo Alto, California, USA, November 19-20, 2015

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Conference Chair: DIMVA'23 (PC chair), DIMVA'22 (PC co-chair)
Technical Program Committee: DIMVA'23, DIMVA'22, SEC'22, AsiaCCS'22, CCS'21, SEC'21, AsiaCCS'21, WOOT'21, EuroSec'21, ESORICS'21, EuroSec'20, SEC'20, TCHES'20, WOOT'20, DIMVA'20, WOOT'19, SEC'19, CARDS'19, BlueHat IL'19, CCS'18, WOOT '18, SPACE'18, WoSSCA'18, Kangacrypt'18