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ATHENE researchers introduce new tool for automated software analysis at it-sa

Software errors and security holes can cause billions of dollars in damage, ruin a company's reputation, and in the worst case, endange people's security. That's why ATHENE researchers at the Fraunhofer SIT have developed VUSC - the code scanner. VUSC - short for Vulnerability Scanner - helps companies and developers  to locate vulnerabilities in third-party codes in minutes.

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Fraunhofer CyberStar Award

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has launched the Fraunhofer CyberStar Award, which honors excellent achievements by Israeli graduates in the field of applied cybersecurity.

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LOEWE Center "emergenCITY" approved at the TU Darmstadt

As part of the Hessian research funding program LOEWE,  TU Darmstadt can establish the new center "emergenCITY" ("The Emergency Responsive Digital City"). It  will be funded by the end of 2023 with a total of 17.4 million euros.

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New colorful barcode

Researchers of Fraunhofer SIT have developed a barcode that consists of arbitrary colors and can assume any shape. The colored JAB code has a much higher data density compared to classical black and white bar and matrix codes. Therefore it can deposit much more information on the same surface, which leads to more security against counterfeiting.

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Keeping health data under lock and key

CRISP researchers from the TU Darmstadt, who work together in the CROSSING Collaborative Research Center of the Deutschen Forschungs­gemeinschaft (DFG), have developed a solution that will ensure decades of safe storage for sensitive health data in a joint project with Japanese and Canadian partners. An initial prototype was presented during a recent conference in Beijing, China. The system will go into trial operation in Japan in the coming weeks.

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