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ATHENE researchers at TU Darmstadt discover weaknesses in WLAN and Bluetooth chips

The ATHENE researchers Prof. Matthias Hollick and Dr. -Ing. Jiska Classen from the TU Darmstadt, cooperating with and Prof. Francesco Gringoli from the University of Brescia, Italy, have discovered vulnerabilities in chips that have not been given much attention by IT security research so far. The three IT security experts were able to show that hacker attacks via Bluetooth can escalate to the point where the damage transcends the original spot of occurrence and affects other areas.

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Making cyber-risks measurable

Since July, the LocateRisk project led by Lukas Baumann and his team has received a sum of 0.73 million euros through the BMBF subsidy program StartUpSecure. The existing startup wants to expand its project for its analytic system that evaluates attacking risks for businesses, and aims to provide small and medium-sized businesses with affordable alternatives to complicated, high-cost manual security audits. This innovative business venture does not only portray security risks within their own business, but it also initially monitors any available data of third parties, for example external service providers or business partners.

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ATHENE researcher joins BMBF project “Scale4Edge”

Following the announcement of the BMBF platform “ZuSE” (“Zukunftsfähige Spezialprozessoren und Entwicklungsplattformen”), three more projects launched recently, including “Scale4Edge”, in which ATHENE researcher Prof Andreas Koch represents the TU Darmstadt as one of the applicants.

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„Proof of Concept“ grant for ATHENE researcher

Prof Jan Peters of the TU Darmstadt has been awarded with a “Proof of Concept” grant in the amount of 150.000 Euro by the European Research Council (ERC). He received the prize for his project “AssemblySkills”, which aims to provide robots with the skill of autonomous learning using Artificial Intelligence.

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Conference radar for cybersecurity

ATHENE helps researchers to plan their scientific publications more easily. For this purpose, a comprehensive overview of the most important scientific conferences on cybersecurity and privacy is available at https://www.athene-center.de/cfp, which can be filtered by event date and submission deadline. Additional filtering options allow for quickly finding suitable publication opportunities of various research topics, while taking into account the scientific reputation of each event listed.

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