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Successful completion of the first round of Booster - the new funding program for cybersecurity founders
The winning teams of the first round of the booster have been determined. Applications for another round are now possible at sus-beratung@athene-center.de.
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Successful submissions on CSCW 2021
Three papers authored by ATHENE researcher Prof. Christian Reuter, head of the PEASEC research group at the TU Darmstadt, and his team were accepted at the 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). At the Core A ranked conference, researchers and practitioners exchange ideas on the technical, social, material, and theoretical challenges of designing technologies to support collaborative work and life activities.
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ATHENE scientists find security vulnerabilities in Tapplock Bluetooth locks
Researchers at Fraunhofer SIT were able to pick Bluetooth locks from the US manufacturer Tapplock in seconds using simple means. All they needed was a homemade directional radio antenna made from crisp cans and two commercially available mini-computers. The manufacturer was informed about the vulnerabilities and has since fixed them in one of its models.
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Claudio Ciborra Award goes to ATHENE researcher
The paper "Algoactivist Practices in Ridesharing - A Topic Modeling & Grounded Theory Approach", written by ATHENE researcher Prof. Alexander Benlian together with Dr. Martin Adam (both TU Darmstadt) and Jennifer Jiang (Goethe University Frankfurt), was awarded the Claudio Ciborra Award (Runners up) at the European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2021. It is thus considered one of the most innovative studies presented at the conference.
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Successful submissions on MobiSys 2021
A paper written by ATHENE researchers from TU Darmstadt together with scientists from IBM Research Europe - Zurich and National University of Singaporewas has been accepted at the 19th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys). The researchers propose FasZIP, a novel zero-interaction pairing scheme that significantly shortens pairing time and prevents advanced attacks, threatening the state of the art. To demonstrate these advantages of FastZIP, they implement and empirical evaluate it for a topical use case of pairing smart devices inside a moving car. The paper will be presented in the HCI session on July 1st.
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