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Effective security notifications for website operators
An interdisciplinary study by researchers from TU Darmstadt, Otto Friedrich University Bamberg and Goethe University Frankfurt shows how website operators can be most effectively informed about inadequate data protection configurations. In this way, authorities and security researchers will be able to persuade website providers to recognise and correct deficiencies as effectively as possible in the future. The research team also provides the tool "Check Google Analytics", which can be used to check the correct activation of IP anonymisation when integrating Google Analytics.
The study was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Research Training Group 2050 "Privacy and Trust for Mobile Users" and by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Hessian Ministry of Science and the Arts (HMWK) as part of the ATHENE funding.
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Data protection-compliant deletion of personal data in the event of security incidents
Information security incidents occur in a wide variety of forms. If personal data is also involved, it also becomes a data protection incident. ATHENE scientist and data protection expert Dr. Annika Selzer explains how to delete such data in compliance with data protection regulations in the article "Data protection-compliant deletion of data protection and information security incidents", published in BvD News 2/21.
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Tracking down lost keys or stolen bicycles made easy
While it was previously possible to track down Apple devices that were thought to have disappeared thanks to the "Find My" tracking app, it is now possible to better locate all kinds of Bluetooth devices - or important objects equipped with them, such as keys, bicycles or suitcases. A research team led by ATHENE researcher and emergenCITY coordinator Prof. Matthias Hollick at TU Darmstadt has developed and published an open-source framework for locating personal Bluetooth devices based on Apple's "Find My Network".
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Paper accepted at SIGCOMM 2021
ATHENE researchers from Fraunhofer SIT and TU Darmstadt place a paper at the A* ranked ACM SIGCOMM. The flagship conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) focuses on applications, technologies, architectures and protocols for computer communication.
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Successful submissions on ARES 2021
Researchers from the research institutions involved in ATHENE, Fraunhofer SIT, TU Darmstadt and Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, were able to place several papers at the "International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security", ARES for short. The conference highlights various aspects of security, with a special focus on the crucial link between availability, reliability and security.
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Fraunhofer study on the IT security of political parties
At the end of 2020, ATHENE launched a study on its own initiative to support the parties currently represented in the Bundestag in assessing and improving their security against cyber attacks. The project is being carried out for ATHENE by staff of the participating Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT and led by Dr. Haya Shulman, head of the department Cybersecurity Analytics and Defences at Fraunhofer SIT.
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