🚨 After six wonderful years, it is time to say goodbye to Braunschweig. Our research group will join Technische Universität Berlin on January 1, 2023. Our new (temporary) website is available here.
09/2022
We are happy to report that Erwin has received the “KI Talente 2022” award for his dissertation about adversarial machine learning. Congratulations! 🎉🍾
08/2022
Woah! Our paper on machine learning in computer security has received the Distinguished Paper Award at the 30th USENIX Security Symposium 🏆.
08/2022
We are attending the 30th USENIX Security Symposium in Boston. Daniel is presenting our study on common pitfalls when applying machine learning in computer security.
07/2022
Our student team won the third prize at this year's TDSE — a programming competition at TU Braunschweig. They developed ClickML, a graphical framework for accelerating the design and applicatin of machine learning.
07/2022
Congratulations to our students Kilo Parser, Fatal Kernel, BND Bluescreen, Captian Expert, and 16bit Rocket for winning this year's hacking lab Seclab (Praktikum IT-Sicherheit) 🥳🎉.
03/2022
We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Rieck has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. His project MALFOY 🐍 (Machine Learning for Offensive Computer Security) will be funded by the EU with 2 million euros in the next five years.
2021
12/2021
In collaboration with KIT and TU Berlin, we are presenting LaserShark at the 37th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). In this paper, we develop an optical bi-directional channel into air-gapped office devices.
Erwin successfully defended his PhD thesis 'On the Security of Machine Learning beyond the Feature Space'. Congratulations Dr. Quiring!
07/2021
Our student team won this year's TDSE — a programming competition at TU Braunschweig. They developed OfficeMania, a virtual office world, where you can easily collaborate, sit at your desk and work, or simply check the paper jam on the virtual printer.
07/2021
Congratulations to our students Blue Boss, Unstoppable Giant, Stormy Kitten, Pokeman Scripter, and Giga Wolf for winning this year's hacking lab Seclab (Praktikum IT-Sicherheit) 🥳🎉.
07/2021
Together with our friends from the Institute of Application Security, we are attending this year's Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. Alex is presenting our paper on improving the security of certifcate transparency.
02/2021
Congratulations to the student team 'Funny Dinosaurs' for winning this year's Datalab, our practical course on machine learning in security.
We welcome all first-year students at TU Braunschweig! Here is a short video introducing the research and teaching activities at our institute (in German).
Our institute has moved. We are now located on the 8th floor of the architecture tower at Mühlenpfordtstraße 23. You can find our new location on this map.
08/2020
Woah! Our Bachelor project ParkDrone has won the second prize at the annual TDSE competition. The students developed an app for locating free parking slots using a drone! 🚁 🏆
Congratulations to our students Mutant Maven, Stack Spike, and Sunrise Newtralizer for winning this year's practical hacking course Seclab (Praktikum IT-Sicherheit).
03/2020
Due to the outbreak of the Corona virus, we make all our courses available via online learning! You can thus stay at home and still have fun with some hacking. ⚠️
02/2020
Congratulations to the student team 'Mystic Snakes' for winning this year's Datalab, our practical course on machine learning in security.
2019
12/2019
Woah! Daniel has received the “KI Talente 2019” award for his dissertation about Android malware detection using machine learning (a.k.a Drebin). Congratulations! 🎉🍾
10/2019
The winter term starts, and we welcome another 130 brave students in our basic lecture on computer security. Happy hacking!
09/2019
We are also attending the 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) in Luxembourg. Erwin is presenting our paper on fragile camera fingerprints.
08/2019
We are attending the 28th USENIX Security Symposium in San Francisco, USA. Erwin is presenting our paper on misleading authorship attribution using adversarial learning.
Congratulations to our student 'Ivy Interrupter' for winning this year's practical hacking course Seclab (Praktikum IT-Sicherheit).
06/2019
Daniel also successfully defended his PhD thesis 'Towards Efficient and Explainable Detection of Mobile Malware with Machine Learning'. Congratulations Dr. Arp aka Dr. Drebin!
06/2019
Our security lecture has received the LehrLeo award for the best lecture at the university! Even better, our hacking lab has also received a LehrLeo award for the best practical course. More information are available here.
04/2019
Hugo successfully defended his PhD thesis 'Defending against Targeted Attacks with Pattern Recognition'. Congratulations Dr. Gascon!
03/2019
Woah! Our students Lukas Pirch and Jonas Möller won the German InformatiCup 2019, out of 30 teams. The task was to evade a machine-learning system. More details here
01/2019
Congratulations to team 'Chaos Coders' for winning this year's Datalab (our practical course on machine learning in security).
2018
11/2018
Chris successfully defended his PhD thesis 'Efficient Machine Learning for Attack Detection'. Congratulations Dr. Wressnegger!
11/2018
Our institute joins the consortium of the Berlin Big Data Center 2. Together with the other partners, we will explore methods for protecting the security and privacy of big data systems.
09/2018
We are attending the 21st Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) in Heraklion, Crete. Hugo is presenting our paper on detecting spear-phishing attacks in emails.
We are attending the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy in London. Erwin is presenting our paper on unifying attacks against adversarial learning and digital watermarking.
02/2018
Our joint paper with Princeton and Drexel on de-anonymizing programmers from executable binaries is presented at the 25th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS).
2017
07/2017
Congratulations to our student 'Sheriff Scripter' for winning this year's SecLab (Praktikum IT-Sicherheit).
06/2017
We are presenting our student project OrcaTun on tunneling network traffic through ultrasound and a small QR code challenge at the TU Night.
Congratulations to team 'Delta Dingos' for winning this year's DataLab (Praktikum Intelligente Systemsicherheit).
2016
10/2016
We are attending the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Vienna, Austria. Chris presents our paper on 64-bit migration vulnerabilities.
10/2016
We are happy to report that our open-source tool Joern has received the second prize at the renown German Prize for IT-Security in Darmstadt.
Off topic: Our team with Christian and Ansgar has won the table soccer competition at the BRICS opening symposium.
04/2016
We are very happy to report that Dr. Fabian Yamaguchi has received the CAST/GI Award IT-Security for his PhD thesis on pattern-based vulnerability discovery. Details are available here.
04/2016
We are excited to announce the launch of the new Institute of System Security. Starting with this semester, the research group of Prof. Dr. Konrad Rieck will conduct research and teaching on computer securtiy in Braunschweig. Stay tuned.
03/2016
We are offering the following courses in this semester at TU Braunschweig: Machine Learning for Computer Security (lecture) and Verdeckte Kommunikation mit Ultraschall (SEP). More details are available here.
2015
11/2015
We are happy that over 100 students have registered for our lecture Introduction to Computer Security in this semester. We are also offering two new seminars: Vulnerability Analysis and Discovery and Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
05/2015
We are attending the 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in San Jose, California. Fabian presents our paper on inferring search patterns for taint-style vulnerabilities in source code.
05/2015
Our group is running two new projects: The research project ABBO deals with the detection of organized fraud in e-commerce and the project APT-Sweeper aims at detecting targeted attacks in email and web communication.
01/2015
We have started the research project INDI. The project is concerned with detecting unknown and novel attacks in industrial networks (e.g. in power plants). It is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research with 1.6 Mio. Euro.
2014
10/2014
The winter term finally started! We are offering the following courses: Introduction to Computer Security (lecture) and Intrusion and Malware Detection (seminar).
08/2014
We are happy to report that Prof. Rieck is a recipient of this year's Google Faculty Research Awards! Google is supporting our research on modeling and finding vulnerabilities in binary code graph with a gift of $83,000.
We are running a new research project: DEVIL. The project is concerned with discovering vulnerabilities in source code using machine learning and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a period of two years.
02/2014
We are happy to attend the 17th NDSS in San Diego, where we present our paper on effectively detecting Android malware on smartphones.
2013
11/2013
Our group is attending the 20th ACM CCS in Berlin. We are presenting our work on finding missing security checks in source code at the main conference as well as two papers at the co-located AISEC workshop.
10/2013
We are attending the 16th RAID Symposium in St. Lucia and present our paper on deobfuscating embedded malware with techniques from classic cryptography.
10/2013
The following courses are offered in the winter term: Introduction to Computer Security (lecture) and Intrusion and Malware Detection (seminar).
03/2013
Summer is slowly coming. We are offering the following courses in this summer term: Machine Learning for Computer Security (lecture) and Hot Topics in Computer Security (seminar).
2012
12/2012
Our paper on extrapolating vulnerabilities using abstract syntax trees has received the Outstanding Paper Award at the 28th ACSAC in Orlando.
