COMSEC group at Pwnie awards: Two nominations, one win
At this year's Pwnie awards at the annual BlackHat conference, the COMSEC group of Prof. Kaveh Razavi received double attention: The group, together with researchers from the United States and the Netherlands, has won one of the prestigious awards for their paper "Speculative Probing: Hacking Blind in the Spectre Era". Additionally, Finn de Ridder, doctoral student at the group, was nominated for his Master's thesis on compromising web browsers on modern systems with Rowhammer.
Pwnies are the most prestigious industrial awards in the security community. More information can be found here:
external page SMASH: Synchronized Many-sided Rowhammer Attacks from JavaScript
Congratulations!