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Blockchain Research Center opened
Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi and Prof. Sebastian Faust, both from CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, have in cooperation with Prof. Philipp Sandner of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Goethe University and international academic and industrial partners Ledgers and Contracts founded the Center for Secure Distributed Ledgers and Contracts. The center researches decentralized security technologies and conducts interdisciplinary research between computer science, law and economics.
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ISCRAM 2019
The 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) will offer an internatinal forum for scientists and users to discuss compositon, development and usage of information systems that are aimed to improve on coping mechanisms for crisis and disaster situations. The conference will offer different tracks, which will present different focal points of the topic. Prof. Christian Reuter, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, is co-chair of the track "Social Media in Crisis and Conflicts".
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FONAS Annual Conference 2018
At this year's autumn conference of the Research Alliance for Science, Disarmament and International Security (FONAS), Prof. Christian Reuter, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, presented the subject area "Science and Technology for Peace and Security." Thea Riebe, PhD student in the field PEASEC and research associate of the research group KontiKat at the University of Siegen, explained in their presentation a research project for the evaluation of dual-use risks in software development and was also elected as a member of the FONAS board of directors.
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International Exchange
Vice minister Chung-Jung Su lead a delegation of 24 members to be informed during their visit of the cyber security research in Darmstadt. Researchers of CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt and Fraunhofer SIT presented their development strategies, international activities and new fields of research and showcased their individual work groups.
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Workshop für StartUps
Für StartUps, die ihr Unternehmen erfolgreich gegründet haben und sich derzeit in der Phase nach der EXIST-Förderung befinden, bzw. die weiterhin auf der Suche nach finanzieller Unterstützung durch Investoren sind, bietet StartUpSecure in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Profilbereich Cybersicherheit und dem Gründungszentrum HIGHEST der TU Darmstadt einen Workshop an, in dem verschiedene Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten aufgezeigt werden.
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StartUpSecure at it-sa 2018
StartUpSecure will debut at europe's largest trade fair for IT-security it-sa - Home of Security taking place from 9th to 11th October 2018 in Nürnberg.The fair shows a broad spectre of approx. 700 exhibitors with products or services concerning cloud, mobile communication and cyber security, data and network security including physical IT-security. Also consulting companies and current research will have a place.
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BTAS 2018
Researchers of the Fraunhofer IGD could sucessfully place two papers at the IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS) platziert. BTAS 2018 is aimed to showcase current research on biometric technologies and is an international forum for new ideas and usage for this field. Biometric systems that feature insides on voice, fingerprint, iris, face, handwriting, gait and other modalities as well as the newest sensor technologies are in special focus at this flaggship conference of the IEEE Biometrics Council.
CRISP-Researcher Prof. Christoph Busch, Hochschule Darmstadt, is member of the organistion committee.
Public Expert Discussion in the German Bundestag:"»Cybersecurity« Perspektives for a secured digital space"“
The task force PEASEC of the TU Darmstadt lead by Prof. Christian Reuter provided one of four experts for digital security. Thomas Reinhold presented on the public expert discussion on "»Cybersecurity« Perspektives for a secured digital space" for the work groups IV, V und VI of the parliamentary group DIE LINKE.
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CRISP-Researchers point out security gap in the Domain Name System
As part of the CRISP flagship project "Secure Internet Infrastructures", scientists at Fraunhofer SIT have found a way to issue fraudulent website certificates that are used to ensure trustworthiness of Internet domains. The team lead by CRISP-researcher Dr. Haya Shulman, Fraunhofer SIT, has shown that the weakness in the domain validation can be exploited in real life and that the security of Internet infrastructures needs to be improved. To do so the researchers have informed Web CAs (Certificate Authorities) and suggest a new implementation that Web CAs may use to mitigate the attack.
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VDE Tec Summit 2018
With this years VDE Tec Summit 2018 celebrations are in order for the 125th anniversery of the VDE association Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V. Approximately 1500 participants from industry, science and politics are expected to discuss and report on the digital transformation in application areas like energy, industry, mobility, health, living and cyber-security. Prof. Christoph Krauß, Fraunhofer SIT, and CRISP managing director will highlight challenges for cyber-security in different business segments in their presentations.
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