Can a malicious cloud provider send bad notifications to break confidential VMs?
Disclosing #AhoiAttacks that break confidential computing offered by AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX by abusing interrupt delivery.
Check our USENIX Security & IEEE S&P papers.
ahoi-attacks.github.io/?1337

👏On 6 March, the ZISC center celebrated its 20th anniversary at ETH Zurich. A big thank you to all the people who joined the celebration and made it such a success! Some impressions are available here: bit.ly/3IJuYIn
Srdjan Čapkun Florian Tramèr kennyog Kari Kostiainen

📢 Deadline Extended!📢Great news for the WiSec 2024 community! We've extended the paper submission deadline to February 12, 2024. You have a few more days to fine-tune your submissions. Let's make this edition the most impactful yet!

Submission for presentations at the Confidential Computing Summit is now open until Feb 29. Talks on use cases, innovation, research, or products for/in confidential computing are welcome. Submit your exciting work related to enclaves!
Confidential Computing Summit confidentialcomputingsummit.com

ZISC marks its 20th anniversary on March 6 at ETH Zurich's AudiMax. Speakers include ZISC faculty, Turing-Award winner Adi Shamir, and industry experts. The center unites academia and industry to address tomorrow's information security and privacy challenges. bit.ly/3HvEaQk

Grateful that this #DieterSchwarzStiftung - ETH Zürich partnership includes further support to the Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center zisc.ethz.ch #ZISC

Super excited to welcome another great new colleague, Michalis Kokologiannakis (people.mpi-sws.org/~michalis/), to join ETH CS Department and our Programming Languages and Systems (PLS) Institute!

We are hiring at assistant professor level in Theoretical Computer Science. Closing date is 6th Jan. Full info here: ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zur…

Great summary by Carmela Troncoso.

INSAIT Institute Russ Salakhutdinov Wouter Van Gansbeke Eran Yahav Srdjan Čapkun James Larus Andreas Krause Tom Henzinger Jennifer Rexford Greg Morrisett Otmar Hilliges Swarat Chaudhuri @ ICLR 2024 Onur Mutlu Zhendong Su Jeff Dean (@🏡) Ryan David Cotterell Mathias Payer
Zico Kolter please spread :)

With secure UWB ranging deployed in products and with impact on UWB standards, 3db team now enters into a new phase. Proud that this effort has started in my group at ETH Zurich ETH CS Department and congratulations to my ex PhD student and co-founder Boris Danev and to the entire 3db team.

Here ETH CS Department, we have two open tenure track positions in systems. More positions to come, details at: ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zur…

A pretty nice academic job opening in AI: ins2i.cnrs.fr/en/cnrsinfo/ch…

jack Elon Musk zerohedge Yet another example of why we need user sovereignty so that phones can be made safe.

x.com/shw3ta_shinde/…

This thread from 2017 has aged extremely well. This is because the mathematics didn’t change. #OnlineSafetyBill

Joint statement from more than 300 scientists from 32 countries warning against the EU proposal for regulation to detect Child Sexual Abuse Material tinyurl.com/CSAScientistsL……
The technologies it puts forward are inadequate to solve the problem and bring huge societal risks
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One more powerful voice:

More than 300 scientists from 32 countries have signed an open letter criticizing the EU proposal for regulation to detect Child Sexual Abuse Material tinyurl.com/CSAScientistsL…
TL;DR ineffective; risk for function creep & abuse; violates human rights
-collab. w Carmela Troncoso

It goes on with Shweta Shinde from ETH CS Department talking about Bringing User Sovereignty to Smartphones!

Super happy that the results of our research on UWB (secure) distance measurement are making a difference in this context.