VUSec researcher Pietro Frigo won the Code Blue Young Researcher Award and because he is now rich, he promises to buy us all drinks for the remainder of his Ph.D.  The corresponding paper (“Grand Pwning Unit“)  shows how to use the GPU to boost microarchitectural attacks (such as cache side channels and Rowhammer). Here is a picture of the lucky winner:

After winning the EuroSys Roger Needham Ph.D. Award (which VUSec has now won a record 5 times!), Dennis Andriesse’s thesis also won the ACM SIGSAC Ph.D. Dissertation Award at CCS’2018.

Download his thesis here.

Stop. Hammertime.

Best paper award for Andrei at RAID 2018.