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ChatGPT or human author?
ATHENE researchers at Fraunhofer SIT are researching ways to help recognize texts created with ChatGPT. Among other things, the text forensics experts are working with a self-developed method for authorship verification, COAV: Originally, it was used to detect plagiarism in scientific papers, for example. Since COAV compares texts on a stylistic basis, this method can also be used to identify a specific "author," namely ChatGPT. This is used to calculate the distances between texts using similarities of text modules and typical consecutive letter strings: Is the text closer to GPT or closer to a human?
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Fraunhofer SIT opens new location in Münster
Fraunhofer SIT's research activities are being expanded to include another core topic, cybersecurity in medicine. Under the direction of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Schinzel, a new research department is being established for this purpose at the new Münster location in Westphalia. Prof. Schinzel has held a professorship at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Münster University of Applied Sciences since 2013, and is considered one of the leading experts on applied cryptography, cybersecurity and the security of medical information technology.
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ATHENE researchers place paper at USENIX 2023
ATHENE is again successfully represented at this year's USENIX. Several papers from ATHENE contributing researchers were accepted at the 32. USENIX Security Symposium. USENIX is one of the four most important conferences in the field of security. Scientists, practitioners, system administrators and programmers from around the world gather to share the latest advances in security and privacy of computer systems and networks.
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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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ATHENE scientists place paper at ASIA CCS 2023
The paper, "Benchmarking the Benchmarks," written by ATHENE researchers, was accepted at the Core A-ranked 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security. In the paper, the researchers took a closer look at the benchmarks researchers use to evaluate a security vulnerability or data leak they have found, for example.
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Successful submission at USENIX 2023 - summer submission
In the "summer submission" of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, a contribution from researchers participating in ATHENE was accepted. USENIX is one of the four most important conferences in the field of security. Scientists, practitioners, system administrators and programmers from all over the world come together to share the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.
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Using patient data securely
Digitization in healthcare offers the opportunity for better patient care. With the push by the German Federal Ministry of Health to make electronic patient records (ePA) mandatory for everyone from the end of 2024, the discussion about the security of sensitive health data is gaining new momentum. Many patients are concerned that their data could fall into the wrong hands. In ATHENE, scientists at Fraunhofer IGD are pursuing the goal of advancing digitization in healthcare by improving safeguards for data use. They will provide insights into the current state of research at DMEA from April 25 to 27, 2023 at the Fraunhofer joint booth in Hall 2.2, Booth D107.
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ATHENE researchers take 2nd place at the Deutsche IT-Sicherheitspreis 2022
Great success for ATHENE scientist Prof. Christoph Busch and his team from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences: The biometrics specialists were awarded 2nd place for their "Morphing Attack Detection" software at the 9. Deutschen IT-Sicherheitspreis. The prize is endowed with 40,000 EUR.
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ATHENE researchers among finalists of the 9th German IT Security Award
The 10 nominees for the 9th German IT Security Award have been determined. In a multi-stage process, the jury selected the most innovative projects from 54 submitted. Ten concepts made it to the finals. ATHENE scientists are involved in 3 of the 10 submissions. The three winning teams will be announced on November 10 at the end of the Bitkom Cybersecurity Innovation Conference.
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Whitepaper on "Active Cyber Defense"
As a result of the Russian attack on Ukraine, the discussion about active cyber defense has also flared up again. Politicians are calling for improved capabilities. In their white paper "Active Cyber Defense" our CEO Prof. Michael Waidner and our cybersecurity expert Prof. Haya Shulman provide concrete examples of the technical options available for improving cyber defense in Germany.
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