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ATHENE CEO appointed as Editor-in-Chief of ACM TOPS
The ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), one of the most established and renowned scientific journals in the field of cybersecurity and privacy technology, has appointed ATHENE Director Prof. Michael Waidner as Editor-in-Chief. His term runs from February 1, 2024 to January 31, 2027.
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ATHENE researcher develops an AI assistant for researchers
The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab led by ATHENE researcher Prof. Iryna Gurevych at TU Darmstadt has received the Amazon University Collaboration Award. As part of the funding, the research team will collaborate with AI researchers from Amazon Alexa in Berlin. Together, they are developing a "virtual research assistant" that helps researchers quickly and reliably close their own knowledge gaps by answering their questions.
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BSI President Claudia Plattner visits ATHENE
During a working meeting with ATHENE Director Prof. Michael Waidner and ATHENE Board of Directors member Prof. Haya Shulman, she exchanged views on current cybersecurity issues.
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AIGIS-Lab
ATHENE scientist Prof. Haya Shulman is the coordinator of the "Real Lab for Modern Cybersecurity in Research Institutions" (AIGIS) project, in which two research institutions are being used as examples to demonstrate what modern cybersecurity architecture can look like. To this end, the researchers are developing a requirements analysis for the construction of an exemplary zero-trust architecture and its evaluation in a real laboratory. To this end, representative substructures in the form of networks, central infrastructures and various institutes will first be selected in both research institutions and analyzed with regard to their requirements. Based on this, the researchers will develop an appropriate, modern cybersecurity architecture.
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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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