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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.

Closing event of the 1. German-Israeli Partnership-Accelerators

With the presentation of new Cyber­security developments the first run of the Hessian-Israeli Partnership-Accelerator (HIPA) closed at the 9th, January. At the closing event at the Hessischen Landesvertretung in Berlin the participating project teams presented their new possible solutions for the quality control of Cloud-services, for the security of Internet infrastructures as well as for the resistance against spam attacks and Denial-of-Service attacks against e-mail accounts. HIPA is the first and only German-Israeli Accelerator with the main emphasis on Cyber­security.

DORIAN - Uncover and Fight Disinformation

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Falschmeldungen werden zur allgemeinen Stimmungsmache oder gezielten Hetze gegen einzelne Personen genutzt und verbreiten sich rasant über das Internet. Allerdings ist es oft schwierig und zeitaufwendig, Fake News zu identifizieren. Hier setzt DORIAN an. Das inter­dis­zi­pli­näre Forschungsprojekt unter Leitung des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Sichere Informations­technologie SIT hat zum Ziel, Desinformation aufzudecken und umfassend zu bekämpfen.

Video regarding online fraud

On the occasion of the Safer Internet Days the reseach group of  TU Darmstadt led by CRISP-PI Melanie Volkamer has published a video together with  Alexander Lehmann about online fraud.

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Darmstadt becomes "Digitale Stadt"

The winner of the Bitkom-competition "Digitale Stadt" was announced yesterday by the Bun­des­wirt­schafts­mi­nis­ter­in Brigitte Zypries at the Digital-Summit in Walldorf. The Lord Mayor of Darmstadt, Jochen Partsch accepted the certificate. He was accompanied by Prof. Michael Waidner, CRISP-speaker and Chief Digital Officer of the city of Darmstadt as well as further supporters inter alia IHK und HEAG Holding AG.