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CAST-Advancement Award IT-Security 2018

For many years, CAST e.V. has been supporting the IT security newcomers in Germany with the invitation to tender for the CAST Förderpreis. Amongst this year's finalists are four works by Darmstadt students. The work was supervised by the TU Darmstadt, one in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD.

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Keeping health data under lock and key

CRISP researchers from the TU Darmstadt, who work together in the CROSSING Collaborative Research Center of the Deutschen Forschungs­gemeinschaft (DFG), have developed a solution that will ensure decades of safe storage for sensitive health data in a joint project with Japanese and Canadian partners. An initial prototype was presented during a recent conference in Beijing, China. The system will go into trial operation in Japan in the coming weeks.

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Finanzielle Förderung von StartUps im Bereich IT-Sicherheit

Since the beginning of the year, all founders and  future founders get advice from our experts to develop their first ideas into market-ready products and services for more cyber security. To this end, the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) provides funding for various phases of the foundation, which can be applied for using StartUpSecure.

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When the IPhone turns black

Collaborators of the Secure Mobile Networking Lab at TU Darmstadt, led by CRISP scientist Prof. Matthias Hollick, have found a vulnerability in Apple's iOS that affects more than half a billion devices. They strongly recommend that users install the newly released Update 12.1. The vulnerability allows attackers to crash iPhones and iPads with common hardware and without physical access.

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When the IPhone turns black

Collaborators of the Secure Mobile Networking Lab at TU Darmstadt, led by CRISP scientist Prof. Matthias Hollick, have found a vulnerability in Apple's iOS that affects more than half a billion devices. They strongly recommend that users install the newly released Update 12.1. The vulnerability allows attackers to crash iPhones and iPads with common hardware and without physical access.

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Make software more secure

CRISP scientists are involved in the realisation of a cryptography assistant for software development within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center CROSSING at TU Darmstadt. It helps integrate cryptographic components and verifies that everything has been properly installed and configured so that the application is really secure.

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