Faculty
2022: Busy Beaver Award for "Foundations of Cybersecurity II"
2021: Busy Beaver Award for "Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses"
2020: EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award
2019: NSA Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition Honorable Mention: Meltdown
2019: Open Exploit Award: Meltdown and Spectre
2019: S&P Distinguished Paper Award - Spectre
2018: CSAW Best Paper Award - Meltdown
2018: Pwnie Award for Best Privilege Escalation Bug - Meltdown
2018: Pwnie Awardfor Most Innovative Research - Spectre
Dr. Michael Schwarz ist Tenured Faculty am CISPA mit Fokus auf Microarchitectural Side-Channel Attacks und Systemsicherheit. Er erhielt seinen PhD mit dem Titel „Software-based Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses in Restricted Environments“ 2019 von der Graz Universität of Technology (beraten von Daniel Gruss). Michael hat zwei Masterabschlüsse, einen in Computer Science und einen in Software Engineering mit einem starken Fokus auf Security. Er ist regelmäßig Sprecher bei akademischen und Hacker-Konferenzen (7 Mal Black Hat, CCC, Blue Hat, etc.). Michael war Teil eines der Forschungsteams, das die Meltdown-, Spectre-, Fallout- und LVI-Schwachstellen, sowie die ZombieLoad-Schwachstelle gefunden hat. Er war auch Teil des Kaiser-Patches, die Basis für die Meltdown-Gegenmaßnahmen, die jetzt in jedem modernen Betriebssystem wie KPTI oder KVA Shadow eingesetzt werden.
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) Page Cache Attacks
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) Fallout: Leaking Data on Meltdown-resistant CPUs
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) ZombieLoad: Cross-Privilege-Boundary Data Sampling
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) NetSpectre: Read Arbitrary Memory over Network
GI International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) Practical Enclave Malware with Intel SGX
Usenix Security Symposium (USENIX-Security) A Systematic Evaluation of Transient Execution Attacks and Defenses.
ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS) Use-After-FreeMail: Generalizing the Use-After-Free Problem and Applying it to Email Services
ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS) Automated Detection, Exploitation, and Elimination of Double-Fetch Bugs using Modern CPU Features
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) Another Flip in the Wall of Rowhammer Defenses