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Vom Sprung ins kalte Wasser – Ein Interview mit unserem Mentor Guenter Kraft

In regelmäßigen Abständen stellen wir einige unserer Mentoren und Mentorinnen vor, die unseren Startups mit Rat und Tat zur Seite stehen.

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ATHENE position paper calls for data protection precautions

Cyber­security researchers are often unable to comply with data protection regulations because they do not know before the start of a research activity whether and what personal data they will be processing. Our data protection experts have therefore formulated a proposed addition to the GDPR. Their concern: The legally binding introduction of data protection precautions that take unplanned data access into account.

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ATHENE researchers discover fundamental design flaws in DNSSEC

Led by Prof. Haya Schulmann of Goethe University Frankfurt, a team of ATHENE researchers has uncovered a critical flaw in the design of DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions), which is a vulnerability in all Domain Name System (DNS) implementations. DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet. Without a fix, the design flaw could have devastating consequences for virtually all DNS implementations using DNSSEC and public DNS providers such as Google and Cloudflare.

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Accepted papers on the CHI 2024

Three papers written by ATHENE researchers were accepted at the A*-ranked ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI for short. The annual conference is the premier inter­national conference of Human-Computer Interaction.

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