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Successful submissions on MobiSys 2021
A paper written by ATHENE researchers from TU Darmstadt together with scientists from IBM Research Europe - Zurich and National University of Singaporewas has been accepted at the 19th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys). The researchers propose FasZIP, a novel zero-interaction pairing scheme that significantly shortens pairing time and prevents advanced attacks, threatening the state of the art. To demonstrate these advantages of FastZIP, they implement and empirical evaluate it for a topical use case of pairing smart devices inside a moving car. The paper will be presented in the HCI session on July 1st.
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ATHENE researcher is Program Chair of ACM Computer Science of Cars Symposium 2021
Prof. Christoph Krauß, Head of the Department Cyber-Physical Systems and Automotive Security at Fraunhofer SIT and Professor of Network Security at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, is Program Chair of the Computer Science in Cars Symposium (CSCS) 2021. CSCS is the ACM flagship event in the field of Car IT with a focus on artificial intelligence and security for autonomous vehicles.
Start-up project with StartUpSecure funding brings new product to market
Startup Trufflepig Forensics is launching its new product after two years of development. The software helps both companies and law enforcement agencies to react faster and more reliably than before to detected threats and to track down cyber criminals.
Since early January, a project proposal by Trufflepig Forensics has been funded by the StartUpSecure funding program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The start-up incubator StartUpSecure | ATHENE intensively supported and advised the founding team with their technical and economic expertise during the application process.
NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Conference enters the 3rd round
Security must also be guaranteed in the age of quantum computers. As early as 2017, the American National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) therefore called for the submission of suitable public-key encryption, key agreement, and digital signature processes that should also be able to withstand attacks utilizing future quantum computers.
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Women's power in the digital world - design, participate, be part of it
The digital world needs women! This is the motto of this year's COMPUTERWOCHE career issue. On 65 pages, technology-savvy women report on their working lives, what moves them, what drives them and how they assert themselves in the working world. ATHENE scientist Dr. Haya Shulman from Fraunhofer SIT presents her "CacheTest" project, for which she was awarded the 8th German IT Security Prize (p. 27).
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New research project from ATHENE: Disinformation and Corona (DisCo)
Disinformation and fake news are circulating around the world about the corona pandemic. Especially on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, people share news that have not been checked, so that it spreads rapidly. "We are not only fighting a pandemic, but also an info-demie," said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General. Researchers at Fraunhofer SIT want to meet this challenge in the DisCo project from the ATHENE research area Secure Digital Transformation in Health Care (SeDiTraH).
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UP21@it-sa Award: Apply now
The most important award for cyber security startups from the DACH region is entering a new round. The UP21 @ it-sa offers young companies the opportunity to prove themselves in speed pitches in front of a specialist audience, experts and investors, and to convince them. You gain more visibility and support startups by networking with the cybersecurity community and potential customers, partners and investors in accelerating their business development.
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ATHENE scientists discuss the possibilities and limits of cooperative security in cyberspace
As part of the lecture series of the Evangelical Academy Loccum under the title “Cyberwarfare - Cyberpeacebuliding. On a search for a Cooperative Security Architecture in Cyberspace ”, ATHENE scientist Prof. Christian Reuter, head of the research group PEASEC - Science and Technology for Peace and Security at the TU Darmstadt, discusses the possibilities and limits of cooperative security in cyberspace.
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Apple AirDrop shares more than files
ATHENE researchers from TU Darmstadt have discovered that Apple users can not only share files with each other using AirDrop. Rather, uninvited persons can also access data. The resarchers developed a solution that could replace the insecure AirDrop. Apple was informed about the privacy gap, but has not yet closed it.
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Booster: New funding program for cybersecurity founders
A new accelerator program called Booster is now promoting cybersecurity startups and supporting startups in the field. The Accelerator Booster was launched by the start-up incubator StartUpSecure of the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity. Start-up projects from StartUpSecure I ATHENE as well as from the partner incubators for cybersecurity CISPA in Saarbrücken, Cube5 in Bochum and StartUpSecure KASTEL in Karlsruhe can participate in boosters.The first six start-up projects have already qualified for booster and will go through a two-month targeted training program and accompanying mentoring by experts from business and research from the beginning of May.
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