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ATHENE scientists place paper at ASIA CCS 2023

The paper, "Benchmarking the Benchmarks," written by ATHENE researchers, was accepted at the Core A-ranked 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security. In the paper, the researchers took a closer look at the benchmarks researchers use to evaluate a security vulnerability or data leak they have found, for example.

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Successful submission at USENIX 2023 - summer submission

In the "summer submission" of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, a contribution from researchers participating in ATHENE was accepted. USENIX is one of the four most important conferences in the field of security. Scientists, practitioners, system administrators and programmers from all over the world come together to share the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.

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Using patient data securely

Digitization in healthcare offers the opportunity for better patient care. With the push by the German Federal Ministry of Health to make electronic patient records (ePA) mandatory for everyone from the end of 2024, the discussion about the security of sensitive health data is gaining new momentum. Many patients are concerned that their data could fall into the wrong hands. In ATHENE, scientists at Fraunhofer IGD are pursuing the goal of advancing digitization in healthcare by improving safeguards for data use. They will provide insights into the current state of research at DMEA from April 25 to 27, 2023 at the Fraunhofer joint booth in Hall 2.2, Booth D107.

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ATHENE reserach in the ARD

In the new ARD documentary "ARD Wissen: Deutschland im Ernstfall: Wie schützen wir unsere Infrastruktur?", ATHENE researchers Prof. Christian Reuter, head of the ATHENE research area "Secure Urban Infrastructure (SecUrban)" and Dr. Marc-André Kaufhold report on their research on automated collection of public data sources and data evaluation with credibility analysis and information prioritization. Thisr research was conducted as part of the CYWARN project and the ATHENE research area Secure Urban Infrastructure (Securban).

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ATHENE researchers take 2nd place at the Deutsche IT-Sicherheitspreis 2022

Great success for ATHENE scientist Prof. Christoph Busch and his team from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences: The biometrics specialists were awarded 2nd place for their "Morphing Attack Detection" software at the 9. Deutschen IT-Sicherheitspreis. The prize is endowed with 40,000 EUR.

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ATHENE researchers among finalists of the 9th German IT Security Award

The 10 nominees for the 9th German IT Security Award have been determined. In a multi-stage process, the jury selected the most innovative projects from 54 submitted. Ten concepts made it to the finals. ATHENE scientists are involved in 3 of the 10 submissions. The three winning teams will be announced on November 10 at the end of the Bitkom Cybersecurity Innovation Conference.

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Whitepaper on "Active Cyber Defense"

As a result of the Russian attack on Ukraine, the discussion about active cyber defense has also flared up again. Politicians are calling for improved capabilities. In their white paper "Active Cyber Defense" our CEO Prof. Michael Waidner and our cybersecurity expert Prof. Haya Shulman provide concrete examples of the technical options available for improving cyber defense in Germany.

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ATHENE researchers present document protection with colorful barcode

At this year's it-sa in Nuremberg, Fraunhofe SIT is showcasing DocSeal, a new solution for protecting against document forgery that enables companies and public authorities to quickly and easily add anti-counterfeiting protection to digital and paper documents. For this purpose, a colorful barcode (JAB Code) is printed on the document, which records important document contents and their placement in the document in a tamper-proof manner. An app can then be used to check document authenticity and automatically detect tampering.

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RPKI is insecure - Mechanism for Internet security broken

ATHENE has found a way to break one of the basic mechanisms used to secure Internet traffic. The mechanism, called RPKI, is actually designed to prevent cybercriminals or government attackers from diverting traffic on the Internet. Such redirections are surprisingly common on the Internet, e.g., for espionage or through misconfigurations. The ATHENE scientist team of Prof. Dr. Haya Shulman showed that attackers can completely bypass the security mechanism without the affected network operators being able to detect this. According to analyses by the ATHENE team, popular implementations of RPKI worldwide were vulnerable by early 2021. The team informed the manufacturers, and now presented the findings to the international expert public.

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TrustCerts is winner of the ATHENE Startup Award UP22@it-sa

The winner of this year's ATHENE Startup Award UP22@it-sa has been determined: The startup TrustCerts was able to prevail against nine other startups in yesterday's pitch and may take home the coveted trophy. The team convinced both the jury and the audience with their business idea of signing, creating and managing documents and proofs in a forgery-proof way, while ensuring neutral verifiability with blockchain technology.

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