This was GSW’25 in a Nutshell! 🌰

We hope you had a great time at our summer school this year. Will you join us in 2026? 😎☀️

📌 GSW’26:
📅 7.–11.9.2026

#cybersecurity #informationsecurity #tugraz #GSW25 #GSW26 #summerschool

Just a few hours ago GSW25 ended, but the fun never stops! Daniel Gruss and Manuel Weber hosted a speaker training for our participants, with some very fun excersises and individual feedback! 

#GSW25 #speakertraining

Georg Fuchsbauer concluded our summer school by giving a great in-depth talk on 'Anonymous (Bitcoin) payments from blind signatures'. 

#GSW25 #bitcoin #blockchain

This morning, David Oswald started our last day at GSW with his talk "Breaching the Gates: Uncovering Hardware Weaknesses in Confidential Computing", giving an overview of power side-channels and fault attacks in confidential computing scenario. 

#GSW25 #sidechannels

Thursday evening, @lavados hosted a city tour, showing off the best spots in the inner city, climbing the "Schlossberg," and surprising first-time visitors and locals alike with many fun facts! 

#GSW25 #Graz

In the Afternoon, our PhD students hosted the Software Side-Channels Lab, where the participants experimented with various microarchitectural side channels.

#GSW25 #Software #SideChannel

It was fun to hold the software side-channel lab today at Graz Security Week, together with @vmcall and @wayna Thank you both! 🙂

Also thank you to all the participants for your interest and the engaging discussions! 🙂

#GSW25 #sidechannels

Later in the morning, Jo van Bulck gave an insightful talk about attacking and defending Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and the evolution of confidential computing.

#GSW25 #TEE

Sahar Abdelnabi's morning talk "What does it mean for AI agents to preserve privacy?" highlighted how LLMs can leak data and introduced the concept of contextual integrity to help align them with social and legal norms.

#GSW25 #LLM #AI

Social Event Part 2: Our culinary adventure continues! For dinner we went to a traditional Styrian "Buschenschank", a restaurant serving cold spreads made of local foods and their own wine and juices. 😍

#GSW25 #buschenschank