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CROSSING Conference „From Tweets to Quantum“
According to the motto "From Tweets to Quantum", over 150 IT security researchers are meeting in Darmstadt in order to discuss the encryption of the future on the 15th and 16th of may. It must be secure, but also efficient, practical and not least user-friendly - a major challenge. The Collaborative Research Centre CROSSING at the TU Darmstadt has therefore invited renowned experts to the annual conference for the second time.
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Security Expert from Darmstadt Requests New Rules for Updates
The cybersecurity expert Dr. Marco Ghiglieri who is active in the SECUSO research group of the TU Darmstadt shows in an interview with the Fachdebattenportal Meinungsbarometer.info. how SmartTV devices could become more secure. The background of the debate ist the succesful,exemplary attack on a SmartTV device and the related debate about (data-) security of the TV viewers.
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CRISP Researchers are Participating in the International Research Project GHOST
The international research project "GHOST - Safe-Guarding Home IoT Environments with Personalised Real-time Risk Control" has started. Participating are ten partner organisations from inter alia Spain, Greece, Norway and Switzerland. The only German partner represented in the project consortium is the Technische Universität Darmstadt with the researchgroup SECUSO headed by Prof. Melanie Volkamer.
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CRISP Speaker becomes Chief Advisor for the Digital City of Darmstadt
CRISP spokesperson Prof. Michael Waidner, head of the Fraunhofer SIT and professor at the TU Darmstadt in the profile sector CYSEC, will become First Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of Darmstadt. The announcement was made by the Oberbürgermeister der Wissenschaftsstadt Jochen Partsch. Prof. Waidner advises the city how the possibilities of the digitalisation can be used for the well-being of the citizens and companies . He will be supported by the city´s CDO-Team which is headed by Joachim Fröhlich the IT director of the city of Darmstadt.
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World Password Day
Appropriately to today´s World Password Day 2017, the family of privacy friendly apps which were developed by the research group SECUSO, CYSEC [at] TU was supplemented by a privacy friendly password generator. This simply enables one to create secure passwords which can not be guessed and therefore hacked.
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CROSSING Spring Retreat 2017
The annual Frühjahrsretreat of the special research field CROSSING headed by CRISP speaker Prof. Johannes Buchmann took place in Bendorf am Mittelrhein this year. The participating professors and scientific employees of CROSSING used the two days for an intense exchange and drawing up further collaborations within the special research field.
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