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Internet security has become part of everyday life where security problems impact practical aspects of our lives. Even though there is a considerable corpus of knowledge about tools and techniques to protect networks, information about what are the actual vulnerabilities and how they are exploited is not generally available. This situation hampers the effectiveness of security research and practice. Understanding the details of network attacks is a prerequisite for the design and implementation of secure systems and services.

The International Secure Systems Lab is the union of three systems security research labs and was originally founded in 2005 at the Technical University of Vienna. As of 2008, the Secure Systems Lab has became international and was initially distributed over three geographical locations including the Institute Eurécom in the French Riviera and the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2010, Ruhr University in Bochum in Germany joined the iSecLab family. Lab members collaborate closely, apply for joint funding, share data, exchange ideas, and have fun together. iSecLab encourages and supports student and faculty mobility within the labs. The research focus is on applied computer security, with a recent emphasis on web security, malware analysis, intrusion detection, and vulnerability analysis.

Theses and Internships

Our lab is constantly looking for motivated TU Vienna students who want to do an internship ("Praktikum") or a thesis with us. If you think you have what it takes, please have a look at this page.

News

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  • 27.07.2010 We are attending the DEFCON Capture the Flag contest this weekend in Las Vegas. We are Team Shellphish.
  • 14.07.2010 We are attending SOUPS 2010 to present a poster on our de-anonymization paper for social networks.
  • 02.07.2010 Next week, we are attending DIMVA in Bonn, Germany to present a paper.
  • 02.07.2010 We attended OWASP AppSec Research 2010 with a talk on Clickjacking.
  • 01.07.2010 Thorsten Holz, one of our previous fellows has joined iSecLab as faculty. We welcome Ruhr University Bochum.
  • 12.06.2010 Wow, two of our recent publications have been Slashdotted at the same time: Here and here.
  • 12.06.2010 PC World published an article on our WEIS 2010 paper.
  • 11.06.2010 BBC News published an article on our WEIS 2010 paper.
  • 10.06.2010 DarkReading published an article on our LEET 2010 paper.
  • 09.06.2010 We attended WEIS 2010 at Harvard University to present a paper.
  • 19.05.2010 We just attended IEEE Security and Privacy to present papers.
  • 19.04.2010 We just attended Asia CCS in Beijing, China to present a paper.
  • 28.03.2010 We just attended ACM SAC 2010 in Sierre, Switzerland to present several papers.
  • 23.03.2010 Brian Krebs blogged about our system FIRE.
  • 05.03.2010 We just attended NDSS 2010 in San Diego to present a paper.
  • 24.02.2010 DarkReading published an article on our deanonymization attack.
Old News

Press

  • Two of our recent publications have been Slashdotted at the same time: Here and here.

  • PC World published an article on our WEIS 2010 paper.

  • BBC News published an article on our WEIS 2010 paper.

  • DarkReading published an article on our LEET 2010 paper.

  • Brian Krebs blogged about our system FIRE.

  • DarkReading published an article on our our deanonymization attack.

  • Our deanonymization attack has been Slashdotted

  • Spiegel Online has published an article on our deanonymization attack.

  • Heise.de published an article on our social network deanonymization attack.

  • We gave an interview to Nature related to our work that shows that profile cloning attacks are feasible in practice.

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