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German-Israeli Cooperation in Cybersecurity Research
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is collaborating globally with excellent partners to create synergies for research and to build bridges to regional markets. With this in mind, two new Project Centers were opened in Israel on May 21 during a ceremony at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The “Fraunhofer Project Center for Cybersecurity at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem” and the “Fraunhofer Project Center for Drug Discovery and Delivery at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem”.
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Checking the Authenticity of Media Data
On behalf of SPIEGEL and Süddeutsche Zeitung, CRISP scientist Prof. Dr. Martin Steinebach’s team at Fraunhofer SIT checked the authenticity of the Ibiza video, the release of which led to the resignation of the Austrian Vice Chancellor Strache. The Federal Ministry of Research and the Hessian Ministry of Science support the research and development of technological tools for manipulation detection on a large scale.
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FUSION 2019
CRISP researchers of Fraunhofer IGD place papers at Conferences 22nd International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION. The International Conference on Information Fusion provides the best forum to present foundational, technological, and application-focused innovations in the sensor, data, information and knowledge fusion scientific domains.
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When your Apple device allows file stealing, reveals your first name and blacks out
Jessica wants to check-in electronically to her flight to New York. But the screen of her iPhone stays black while the phone enters an endless reboot cycle. And she is not alone: all Apple users in proximity suffer the same fate. Worse, she does not even suspect that during her previous stay in the airport lounge an attacker was able to steal holiday photos and a company presentation she was transferring from her phone to her MacBook, track her position and associate her first name with a unique device ID.
These vulnerabilities were discovered by researchers of TU Darmstadt, Germany and Northeastern University, Boston, USA
USENIX Security Symposium 2019
CRISP researchers of TU Darmstadt publish several papers at 28. USENIX Security Symposium. USENIX conference belongs to the top four important conferences in the field of security. Scientists, practitioners, system administrators and programmers from all over the world come together in order to interchange about the newest advantages in the fields of security and privacy of computer systems and networks.
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