Congratulations to the ZISC chair Srdjan Čapkun and to the ZISC faculty member Adrian Perrig on receiving European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants! The European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants rank among the most prestigious research awards available to scientists at European universities. Through these grants, the ERC supports ambitious, high-risk research projects with the
In order to promote research and innovation in cyber-defence, our partners EPFL and Cyber-Defence (CYD) Campus are now opening calls for different fellowship opportunities aimed at Master, Doctoral and Postdoctoral researchers as well as future entrepreneurs: – Doctoral Fellowships (up to 4 years plus 1-year potential extension): deadline on 19 August 2026 (17:00 CEST). –
A recent publication by the SPY Lab ask how good large language models are at re-identifying anonymous online users. This is a collaboration between Daniel Paleka, Joshua Swanson, Michael Aerni and Florian Tramèr from ETH Zurich’s Department of Computer Science (D-INFK), together with Simon Lermen (MATS) and Nicholas Carlini (Anthropic). Although deanonymization is a decades-old
Researchers from ETH Zurich’s Department of Computer Science (D-INFK) have been awarded the prestigious Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography at this year’s Real World Cryptography Conference. The prize recognizes outstanding contributions that have significantly advanced the practical deployment of cryptographic systems. Professor David Basin and lecturer Ralf Sasse received the award together with Professors Cas
The Applied Crypto group’s research on password managers is now public at: https://webro.ke/passwordmanagers The paper, to appear at USENIX Security ’26, sees Matteo Scarlata, Giovanni Torrisi (former MSc student in AC, now doctoral student at USI Lugano), Matilda Backendal (former doctoral student in AC, now Professor at USI Lugano) and Kenny Paterson take a “Crypto
Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) is extending its ZISC partnership for another 10 years, reaffirming its long-term commitment to strengthening research and education in information security, data protection and artificial intelligence at ETH Zurich. Security and reliability, the handling of sensitive data and protection against unauthorized access are core competencies of Zürcher Kantonalbank. “The security of digital
The ZISC center has published its annual report for 2025. The information security landscape is undergoing a significant disruption. The reason behind this is the rapid emergence of new technologies like AI on the one hand, but also the prospect of quantum technologies. On a geopolitical level, the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East
Professor Adrian Perrig, who leads the Network Security Group at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the prestigious ESORICS 2025 Outstanding Research Award. The award recognises Perrig’s long-standing contributions to building secure network systems and his pioneering work on the SCION Internet architecture. SCION (Scalability, Control, and Isolation On Next-Generation
ZISC researchers from the groups led by Professor Srdjan Capkun and ETH Assistant Professor Shweta Shinde have developed a new software architecture that can divide a smartphone up into several isolated domains that are completely independent of one another. Now, the two post-doctoral researchers Ivan Puddu and Moritz Schneider have founded the spin-off Soverli, which
Dennis Hofheinz, Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Test of Time Award for his 2017 paper, co-authored with Professor Eike Kiltz (Ruhr-University Bochum) and Professor Kathrin Hövelmanns (Eindhoven University of Technology). The paper, “A Modular Analysis of the Fujisaki-Okamoto Transformation”, proved influential in the development of