2022
Golden owl for COMSEC
The student association of ETH Zurich has awarded D-ITET’s 2022 Golden Owl to the COMSEC group for good teaching.
Doctoral examination of Roland Meier
One more member of the NSG receives a doctorate from ETH. Congratulations!
Speculative calculations open a backdoor to information theft
TIK researchers Johannes Wikner and Kaveh Razavi have discovered a serious security vulnerability in computer hardware. The vulnerability, called "Retbleed," affects microprocessors from market leaders Intel and AMD. All commercially available operating systems worldwide that use these processors are affected. When computers execute special calculation steps to compute faster, they leave traces that hackers could abuse.
Doctoral examination of Ye Wang
One more member of the DISCO group receives a doctorate from ETH. Congratulations!
Patrick Jattke receives QIF Europe award
Patrick Jattke was awarded the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Europe for his research proposal on using machine learning techniques to improve Rowhammer testing. The competition was fierce, with Patrick’s proposal being the only one that was awarded in the cyber security domain.