Daniel Gruß

Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. BSc

Secure Systems, Professor

Daniel Gruss is a professor in Information Security at the Graz University of Technology, Institute of Information Security. He finished his PhD with distinction in less than 3 years. He has been involved in teaching operating system undergraduate courses since 2010. Daniel's research focuses on software-based attacks and defenses on microarchitectural layers in hardware and software. He implemented the first remote fault attack running in a website, known as Rowhammer.js. He frequently speaks at top international venues, such as Black Hat, Usenix Security, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, Chaos Communication Congress, and others. His research team was one of the teams that found the Meltdown and Spectre bugs published in early 2018 and designed the software patch (KAISER) against Meltdown which is now integrated in every operating system.
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Daniel Gruß

Teaching

I teach undergraduate classes: And graduate classes:

Service

    • Technical Program Committee: AsiaCCS'21, SEC'21, WOOT'20, CARDIS'20, SEC'20, TCHES'20, WOOT'19, SEC'19, CARDS'19, BlueHat IL'19, CCS'18, WOOT '18, WOOT'19, SPACE'18, WoSSCA'18, Kangacrypt'18
 
    • Reviewer: AJSE, PLOS ONE, IET Information Security
 
    • External Reviewer: PoPETS'18, DIMVA'17, EUROCRYPT'17, CHES'16, CT-RSA'16, DATE'16, CT-RSA'15, DATE'15, Indocrypt'15
 

Publications

When Good Kernel Defenses Go Bad: Reliable and Stable Kernel Exploits via Defense-Amplified TLB Side-Channel Leaks

Maar L., Giner L., Gruß D., Mangard S.
Proceedings of the 34rd USENIX Security Symposium, 34th USENIX Security Symposium, (Proceedings of the 34rd USENIX Security Symposium)

The HMB Timing Side Channel: Exploiting the SSD's Host Memory Buffer

Juffinger J., Weissteiner H., Steinbauer T., Gruß D.
Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment - 22st International Conference, DIMVA 2025, Proceedings, Springer, Cham

Real-World Study of the Security of Educational Test Systems

Gast S., Felix S., Steinmaurer A., Juffinger J., Gruß D.
10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Workshop Proceedings, Workshop on Operating Systems and Virtualization Security

Not So Secure TSC

Juffinger J., Neela S., Gruß D.
Applied Cryptography and Network Security, 23rd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security

Cohere+Reload: Re-enabling High-Resolution Cache Attacks on AMD SEV-SNP

Giner L., Neela S., Gruß D.
DIMVA

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