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Aug 13, 2025 - VUSec is the Systems and Network Security Group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and one of the larger groups in the Computer Science department at the VU. Our...

May 29, 2020 - Contact Details Email address kaveh@ethz.ch Twitter  @kavehrazavi Phone +31 20 598 7907 Office 11A-57 Mailing address Kaveh...

Aug 12, 2020 - We are happy to announce that the VUSec team won the Hack@Sec Hardware CTF @USENIXSecurity Congratulations to Alyssa, Enrico, Hany, Koen and Marius!

May 25, 2020 - We are proud to announce that Cristiano Giuffrida has won the VMware Early Career Faculty Grant – a program intended to recognize the next generation of...

Jun 30, 2020 - For the first time, we show that speculative execution enables attackers to leak sensitive information also across cores on many Intel CPUs, bypassing all the...

Jun 30, 2020 - Drammer is the first instance of mobile Rowhammer and comprehends a deterministic Android root exploit that does not rely on any software vulnerability.

Jun 30, 2020 - How well does ECC protects against Rowhammer? Exploiting Correcting Codes: On the Effectivenessof ECC Memory Against Rowhammer Attacks.

Jan 23, 2020 - Recently graduated Harry King just won the (university-wide) best bachelor thesis award for his thesis on “Development Tools &Techniques for a More...

Aug 12, 2021 - Even though we have been neglecting the News pages a bit these past few months, it does not mean nothing has happened. So here is a short summary of awards we...

Jun 30, 2020 - Address Space Layout Randomization Address space layout randomization or ASLR in short is a first line of defense against attackers targeting Internet users....

Dec 11, 2020 - TRRespass shows for the first time that state-of-the-art DDR4 DRAM from all major vendors is still vulnerable to practical Rowhammer attacks even though...

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Sep 7, 2019

Mar 27, 2021 - Project Description Rowhammer haunted us for the better part of the past decade. Most DDR3 modules were found to be susceptible to this vulnerability which can...

May 25, 2020 - Pietro won the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. The QIF program is focused on recognizing, rewarding, and mentoring innovative PhD students across a broad range...

Nov 16, 2019 - Two of VUSec’s papers were nominated for the Best Applied Research Award at CSAW’19 in Valence France: ECCploit and RIDL. When the dust settled,...

May 25, 2020 - Our TRRespass work on finding vulnerabilities in state-of-the-art in-DRAM defenses against Rowhammer attacks was awarded “Best Paper” at the IEEE...