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.
Usenix Security Symposium (USENIX-Security)
InstrSem: Automatically and Generically Inferring Semantics of (Undocumented) CPU Instructions
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
RISCy Cache Coherence: Timer-Free Architectural Cache Attacks via Instruction/Data Cache Incoherence
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
TDXRay: Microarchitectural Side-Channel Analysis of Intel TDX for Real-World Workloads
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
Crucible: Retrofitting Commodity CPUs with Vulnerabilities via Transparent Software Emulation
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
TREVEX: A Black-Box Detection Framework For Data-Flow Transient Execution Vulnerabilities
Usenix Security Symposium (USENIX-Security)
StackWarp: Breaking AMD SEV-SNP Integrity via Deterministic Stack-Pointer Manipulation through the CPU’s Stack Engine
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
SNPeek: Side-Channel Analysis for Privacy Applications on Confidential VMs
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
Styled to Steal: The Overlooked Attack Surface in Email Clients
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
RISCover: Automatic Discovery of User-exploitable Architectural Security Vulnerabilities in Closed-Source RISC-V CPUs
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
ExfilState: Automated Discovery of Timer-Free Cache Side Channels on ARM CPUs