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CRISP Flagship Project "Secure Internet Infrastructures" places 3 Papers
From theflagship project "Safe Internet Infrastructures" led by Prof. Haya Shulman, Fraunhofer SIT, three papers were accepted at top international conferences. As part of the project, new mechanisms are being developed to make it easier to redirect Internet traffic for eavesdropping via prepared Internet nodes.
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Cybersecurity and Cyberconflict: State of the Art Research Conference
International researchers specializing in the strategic (Miss) use of cyberspace by state and non-state actors will analyze the governance challenges involved at the conference. Prof. Christian Reuter and Marc-André Kaufhold, M.Sc., both CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, talk in the panel "Cyber-violence" about "Cultural Violence and Peace in Social Media".
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Online Course to secure the Company's IT Infrastructure
CRISP scientists from Fraunhofer SIT have already prepared the first web training for IT-Grundschutz and have now completely revised and modernized it on behalf of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). The online course offers a practice-oriented and compact introduction to information security with IT baseline protection.
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HSFK Annual Conference 2018: Verification in Crisis, the Crisis of Verification
This year's HSFK conference of the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research has the motto "Verification in Crisis - Crisis of Verification. New Technology as a Hurdle to and Enabler of Verification in Arms Control " and will address the role of new technologies in arms control. Prof. Christian Reuter, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, talks about "Verification in Cyberspace" in the panel Emerging Technologies and the Impact of Software.
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Dangerous Security Holes in Tracker Apps
Tracker apps provide a means for legitimate personal tracking, i.e. for parents to locate their children. Many tracker apps, however, contain serious security vulnerabilities. CRISP-researchers of Fraunhofer SIT have analyzed popular tracker apps available in the Google Play Store – the result: not even one of them was secure; all had serious security flaws. Attackers can exploit these vulnerabilities to generate movement profiles, to read chats and text messages, and to view pictures.
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Three papers accepted at top conferences IEEE S&P and ACM CCS
Three papers from the group of Prof. Sebastian Faus, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, have been accepted to the the top conferences IEEE S&P and ACM CCS.
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Start-up desof the Month
Authada is a Darmstadt cybersecurity startup and a spin-off of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. Authada's identification solutions are build on the eID functionality of the ID card. Authada revolutionises existing identification processes - people are identified in seconds by means of a mobile or stationary NFC-enabled terminal. It is legally secure on the basis of German and EU legislation, as well as application-safe due to the certification of these solutions by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
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Three Tips for Founders
Public relations is one of the most important means of putting a newly founded startup, a newly introduced product idea or a service in a positive light. The press release is still the most popular PR tool. To succeed with the journalist, the message must stand out. We give three tips to consider when writing a press release.
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Darmstadt Start-Ups are in greater demand than ever
Prof. Peter Buxmann is Professor of Business Informatics | Software & Digital Business at the TU Darmstadt and Head of the Innovation and Start-up Center of the TU Darmstadt (HIGHEST). In an interview he explains why start-ups are so interesting for the economy, what HIGHEST's role is and why innovative ideas are needed, especially in the area of IT security.
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PLLS 2018: Workshop on the Protection of Long-Lived Systems
Following the first successful PLLS Workshop 2016 in Darmstadt, the second workshop on the protection of durable systems, PLLS 2018, takes place from 17 to 19 September 2018 in Pärnu, Estonia. CRISP spokesman Prof. Johannes Buchmann, CYEC [at] TU Darmstadt is program chair of the workshop. Prof. Stefan Katzenbeisser is a member of the program committee along with other scientists from the TU Darmstadt.
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