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Guest article by ATHENE director in the trend monitor of I.VW, University of St. Gallen
In the new trend report from I.VW, Institute of Insurance Economics, University of St. Gallen, ATHENE Director Prof. Michael Waidner describes threat trends in cybersecurity and outlines strategies for increasing the overall level of security.
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ATHENE researcher in the Program Committee of ARES 2021
Prof. Christian Reuter from TU Darmstadt is one of the Program Committee Members of the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES for short) 2021. The international conference highlights the various aspects of security - with a special focus on the crucial link between availability, reliability and security.
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ATHENE Scientists Included in Program Committee of ACM CCS 2021
Prof.Thomas Schneider from TU Darmstadt has been accepted into the Program Committee of this year's ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS for short) for the Applied Cryptography track. The ACM CCS is the world's largest academic conference on communications security and cybersecurity (CCS).
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ATHENE wishes a Merry Christmas
We thank you for a successful 2020 and look forward to further exciting projects and new challenges!
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ATHENE-Scientist are strengthening the Data sovereignity in the financial sector
With Prof. Mira Mezini, Prof. Carsten Binnnig and Prof. Kristian Kersting, three ATHENE-Scientists from the Technical University of Darmstadt are part of the new project SafeFBDC, which is funded as part of the AI-innovation competition of the Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy (BMWi).
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ATHENE: Security
Eine wesentliche Aufgabe von ATHENE besteht darin, zu mehr Cybersicherheit und Privatsphärenschutz für die digitale Transformation von Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und öffentlicher Verwaltung beizutragen. Im Fokus unserer anwendungsorientierten Forschung arbeiten wir an neuen Erkenntnissen und Ergebnissen etwa durch die Entwicklung neuer Technologien, Methoden oder Konzepten. Dabei decken wir eine große Bandbreite von Fragestellungen ab.
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Merry Christmas!
2020 was a very exciting year and will probably go down in history. The Corona pandemic turned a lot of things upside down and presented us with many challenges, but at the same time also showed us many new paths and opportunities. And we are happy and satisfied to be able to draw a positive balance despite all the circumstances and are already looking forward to 2021 with great anticipation.
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VeraCrypt with minor flaws
Fraunhofer SIT press relase (German):
In der kostenlosen Open-Source-Verschlüsselungssoftware VeraCrypt wurden keine gravierenden Sicherheitslücken gefunden, allerdings gibt es Verbesserungsbedarf bei der Entwicklungspraxis und der Codequalität. Das ist das Ergebnis einer Sicherheitsanalyse der Expertinnen und Experten des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Sichere Informationstechnologie SIT in Darmstadt, die im Auftrag des Bundesamts für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik BSI durchgeführt wurde. Die vollständigen Ergebnisse der Analyse sind in einer Studie zusammengefasst, die von der Webseite des BSI heruntergeladen werden kann: Download der Studie
ATHENE-Prize 2020: ATHENE researcher receives honorary prize for interdisciplinary teachings
Every year, the Carlo and Karin Giersch-Stiftung at the TU Darmstadt awards the “Athene-Preis für gute Lehre” worth 46.000 euros. With this prize, the TU Darmstadt recognises outstanding best-practice-models in the area of teaching. This year’s special prize for interdisciplinary teachings goes to ATHENE researcher Prof. Christian Reuter.
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ATHENE researcher receives IANUS Prize 2020
Seven excellent submissions from seven different departments at the TU Darmstadt reached the final round for the IANUS Prize 2020 – a prize the TU Darmstadt awards for outstanding qualifying work in any department at the university. Two applicants were awarded first place. The first prize, doted with 500 euros, was awarded to ATHENE researcher Dr. Marc-André Kaufhold, M.Sc., for his dissertation “Information Refinement Technologies for Crisis Informatics: User Expectations and Design Implications for Social Media and Mobile Apps in Crisis”.
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