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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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CRISP-Scientists receive Science Award of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
Within the „Tag der Forschung“ Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da) awarded the Science Award for the first time. With Prof. Christoph Busch and Prof. Michael Massoth two CRISP-Scientists are among the total of three award winners.
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Successfull submissions of CRISP researchers at ICIS 2017
Two papers from the research group of Prof. Peter Buxmann, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstat, have been accepted for publication at International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2017. ICIS is worldwide the best rated conference in the field of Information Systems (VHB: A-Ranking).
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World Usability Day
Every year on the second Thursday of November the World Usability Day is celebrated worldwide. On this day everything is about the easy handling of products. The SECUSO-research group, headed by Prof. Melanie Volkamer, of TU Darmstadt uses this as an opportunity to publish a new version of PassSec+, the popular, user-friendly Firefox Add-On for the protection of passwords, payment information and privacy.
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