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Danger over the phone
Hackers can access sensitive data and services also via telephone devices: Most companies use VoIP telephones that are integrated into the company network. Security researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology have found a total of 40 partly serious vulnerabilities in these VoIP telephones. Attackers can misuse these gaps to intercept calls, deactivate the telephone or gain further access to the company network via weak points in the device. The VoIP telephones producers have by now closed these vulnerabilities. Users are strongly recommended to install the appropriate updates of the device’s firmware.
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CRISP researchers place paper at leading Symposium for Software Testing and Analysis
A paper of CRISP researchers at the TU Darmstadt has been accepted at the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, ISSTA. The researchers will present it at this year's conference in Beijing, China.
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Fraunhofer CyberStar Award
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has launched the Fraunhofer CyberStar Award, which honors excellent achievements by Israeli graduates in the field of applied cybersecurity.
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44CON
44CON is an Information Security Conference & Training event taking place in London. Designed to provide something for the business and technical Information Security professional. CRISP researchers Stephan Huber und Philipp Roskosch at the Fraunhofer SIT talk about "Dial V for Vulnerable: Attacking VoIP Phones".
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New funding for innovative ideas to protect against cyber threats
To protect against cyber threats, new technologies such as powerful computers and digital currencies require innovative security measures . Through the newly launched funding program "StartUpSecure" of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the first promising projects now get start-up assistance in the implementation of their founding ideas. The CRISP incubator StartUpSecure accompanied them on their way there.
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