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CRISP Speaker is invited to the Bundestag as an Expert

The 11. session of their legislative period the Committee of Digital Agenda deals with the current state  of the development of quantum computers.  CRISP speaker Prof. Johannes Buchmann, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, took part in the public hearing as one of seven invited experts.

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Prof. Mira Mezini is being honored as an Outstanding Personality with Migration Background

CRISP-Researcher and vice president of TU Darmstadt, Prof. Mira Mezini, is being honored as an outstanding personality with a migration background by the Hessian Minister for social and integration issues, Stefan Grüttner, in castle Biebrich in Wiesbaden.

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Eurographics Gold Medal 2018 goes to Prof. Dieter W. Fellner

For his extraordinary carrier and merits for the advancements of computer graphics, Prof. Dr. techn. Dieter W. Fellner, Fraunhofer IGD,  was honored and distinguished. However the international research organization for computer graphics didn't award Fellner the gold medal just for his research: He was also honored for the leading position he has been holding for years at the Eurographics Association.

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CRISP at CEBIT 2018

The CRISP-partners Fraunhofer SIT and Fraunhofer IGD show their newest development and innovative solutions at CEBIT in Hanover from 11. until 15. June. Dr. Reiner Wichert, managing director of CRISP gives an overview of the cyber security research of Darmstadt on Wednesday  June 13, 2018 at 13:00 o'clock at the joint stand Digitales Hessen in hall 17 | stand E44.

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PROTECTIVE starts Test Operation

The European project PROTECTIVE (Proactive Risk Management through Improved Cyber Situational Awareness) initiated the test operation of a system that allows the automatic sharing of security information. On the part of the TU Darmstadt the CRISP-researcher Prof. Max Mühlhäuser takes part in PROTECTIVE with his research group. The researchers from Darmstadt bring their expertise in the field of Computational Trust Managements to judge and visualize the quality of the threat data.

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Second Funding Phase for Crypthograpy- Special Research Area CROSSING granted

On May 17, the Deutsche Forschungs­gemeinschaft (DFG) granted the second funding phase for the special research area CROSSING, that exists at TU Darmstadt since 2014. From 2018 until 2022 CROSSING will be granted an additional 10 Million Euro.

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BMBF-Innovation Forum "Civil Security" 2018

Prof. Christian Reuter, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, is member of a panel discussion of this years innovation forum "Civil Society" of the BMBF. Combined with Prof. Wolf-Dieter Lukas, BMBF; Dr. Janina Lara Dressler, Deutscher Feuerwehrverband; Matthias Oel, European Commission – General Directorate for Migration and Interior and Gerald Richter, corporate security Deutsche Bahn he discusses about topics such as " Analog and Digital Competence - Implications for Personal", "Digitalization and Networking – Perspectives dealing with biological Dangers" as well as "Safe travel, even under the Surface".

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Digital Future 2018

Deputy speaker of CRISP Prof. Michael Waidner is one of the keynote-speakers at the Digital Future Science Match 2018. The Digital Future Science Match is a international computer conference that takes place every spring in Berlin, in honor of the invention of the  Z3 computer from Konrad Zuse in May 1941.

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German-Israeli-Conference

"Internal Security and Human Rights under Exceptional Conditions" is the motto of the German-Israeli Conference on May 14, 2018 in Frankfurt. CRISP scientist Prof. Christian Reuter, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, and Dr. Haya Shulman, Fraunhofer SIT, talk about developments in cyber technology and discuss their effects.

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USENIX Security 2018

The paper  "Freezing the Web: A Study of ReDoS Vulnerabilities in JavaScript-based Web Servers" from Prof. Michel Pradel and Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, both CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, was accepted at the USENIX Security Symposium. The paper deals with the reveal of ReDoS weak spots in JavaScript software-modules. These make it possible that a website can freeze with a single inquiry, so that other users would not be able to access the server the website is connected with.

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