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Exchange of Cybersecurity topics
Nick Leake, Deputy Head of Mission at British Embassy Berlin, used his visit in Darmstadt to inform himself about the Cybersecurity activities of CRISP and to discuss possibilities and chances of digitalization.
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Hessen is committed to the fight against cyber crime
In a new cinema advert the Hessen State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts (HMWK) draws attention to the Cybersecurity research in Darmstadt. The message of the advert is that the State Hessen invests in the security of its citizens and can be seen in cinemas for 7th December to 27th December 2017. The advert was produced by the initiative "Hessen schafft Wissen.de" on behalf of HMWK.
CAST-Förderpreis IT-Security 2017
For the 17th time the CAST-Förderpreis IT-Security was awarded yesterday. Patrik Holzer, TU Darmstadt, took the second place in the category Master-Thesis with his Thesis "Recovering Short Generators of Principal Fractional Ideals in Cyclotomic Fields of Conductor p^alpha q^beta".
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Secret data collectors on Smartphones exposed
The MetaMiner, developed by Fraunhofer SIT, exposes and blocks tracking-services within Apps, which secretly spy on users. The pursuit of user activities on the web, so called Tracking, has been a known data privacy problem for a long time. Information about which sites a user visits on the web and which interests they have are collected in the background. Numerous solutions are existing for internet browser, which make tracker visible for the user and which protect them.
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Digital city, certainly! - Cybersecurity in Darmstadt
Every year at "Wissenswerte" scientific journalists of the German-speaking countries, chief editors and publisher of renowned media and scientific communicators of research and economy are coming together. CRISP presents itself with the motto "Digital City, certainly - cybersecurity in Darmstadt" and shows their exhibits at the exhibition stand of Fraunhofer and TU Darmstadt.
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