LOEWE Top Professorship for Prof. Carsten Binnig
ATHENE researcher Prof. Carsten Binnig has been awarded a LOEWE Top Professorship at the TU Darmstadt. The state of Hesse is supporting the research project "Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI)" as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.
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ATHENE researcher Prof. Max Mühlhäuser retires
Computer researcher Prof. Max Mühlhäuser has taught and researched at TU Darmstadt for almost 25 years. He has been involved in ATHENE since the predecessor centre CASED was founded and is now one of the coordinators of the ATHENE research area User-centered Security and Privacy (UCSP). He will be retiring in a few months.
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ATHENE paper accepted at prestigious S&P
The paper "Investigating Voter Perceptions of Printed Physical Audit Trails for Online Voting", written in collaboration with ATHENE researchers, has been accepted at the prestigious IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P). S&P is the premier forum for leading international experts in research and practice to discuss the latest developments in computer security and electronic privacy.
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Sieben innovative Cybersecurity Startups im Accelerator-Programm SpeedUpSecure am ATHENE-Zentrum
Das Accelerator-Programm „SpeedUpSecure“ am Nationalen Forschungszentrum für angewandte Cybersicherheit ATHENE fördert Startups mit innovativen Lösungen im Bereich Cybersecurity. Sieben Startups aus ganz Deutschland wurden von den vier Inkubatoren für Cybersecurity in Darmstadt, Bochum, Karlsruhe und Saarbrücken ausgewählt und durchlaufen seit Mitte Mai das intensive und gezielte Trainingsprogramm.
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ATHENE researchers present paper at Eurocrypt 2024
Two papers co-authored by ATHENE researcher Prof. Sebastian Faust from TU Darmstadt have been accepted at the prestigious 43rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Eurocrypt for short. Both papers deal with the protection of cryptographic systems against side-channel attacks, in particular masking methods. This involves randomising the chip's calculations in order to hide side-channel information from an attacker.
read moreATHENE-Paper accepted at the CHI 2024
ATHENE researchers will present their papers at the prestigious ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI for short. CHI is the premier international conference on human-computer interaction and serves as a platform for researchers, practitioners and industry leaders to share their latest work and ideas and foster collaboration and innovation in the field.
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ATHENE on the MS Wissenschaft
MS Wissenschaft starts its tour of Germany today. Around 30 interactive exhibits are on board, inviting to touch and explore. Also on board is an exhibit from ATHENE | Fraunhofer SIT about the darknet. Under the motto 'Darknet - heller als gedacht', the predominantly young visitors will learn what exactly the darknet is and that it is not only criminals who operate in the Darknet. The darknet is also used to surf the Internet anonymously and to avoid being tracked by the advertising industry. And people who are politically persecuted or fear repression in their home countries use the darknet to read uncensored news or organise anonymously.
ATHENE launches German-Israeli research cooperation on cyber security in the energy sector
ATHENE and the Israeli Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure of the State of Israel are launching a three-year collaborative research program in which researchers from Israeli universities will work with ATHENE researchers to develop solutions to cybersecurity problems in the energy sector. For an initial period of three years, the Israeli Ministry of Energy is funding researchers from Israeli universities to work with ATHENE researchers to lay the foundations for improving cybersecurity in the energy sector. The initial focus will be on the development of new, practical architectures for a more cyber resilient energy supply, the development of methods for detecting attacks at all levels of the energy sector, and the development of methods for defending against denial-of-service attacks against the energy sector.
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ATHENE researchers discover serious security vulnerabilities in Internet routing protection software
A research team from the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE led by Prof. Dr. Haya Schulmann has uncovered 18 vulnerabilities in crucial software components of Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI). The affected vendors have been provided with patches for their products.
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ATHENE publishes white paper on the CRA
Connected products are to become more secure across the EU - that is the aim of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), an EU regulation that is currently being voted on and is expected to come into force this year. In our latest whitepaper, our researchers address the latest version of the CRA draft and explain which companies and products are likely to be subject to which obligations.
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