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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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ICB 2019
CRISP researchers at Fraunhofer IGD and Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences publish in total 6 papers at 12th IAPR International Conference On Biometrics, ICB 2019. The conference has established itself as a leading international conference in biometrics. The conference will have a broad scope and invites papers that advance biometric technologies, sensor design, feature extraction and matching algorithms, analysis of security and privacy, and evaluation of social impact of biometrics technology. Topics of interest include all areas of current Biometrics research and applications.
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