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Vice minister Chung-Jung Su lead a delegation of 24 members to be informed during their visit of the cyber security research in Darmstadt. Researchers of CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt and Fraunhofer SIT presented their development strategies, international activities and new fields of research and showcased their individual work groups.
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Workshop für StartUps
Für StartUps, die ihr Unternehmen erfolgreich gegründet haben und sich derzeit in der Phase nach der EXIST-Förderung befinden, bzw. die weiterhin auf der Suche nach finanzieller Unterstützung durch Investoren sind, bietet StartUpSecure in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Profilbereich Cybersicherheit und dem Gründungszentrum HIGHEST der TU Darmstadt einen Workshop an, in dem verschiedene Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten aufgezeigt werden.
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StartUpSecure at it-sa 2018
StartUpSecure will debut at europe's largest trade fair for IT-security it-sa - Home of Security taking place from 9th to 11th October 2018 in Nürnberg.The fair shows a broad spectre of approx. 700 exhibitors with products or services concerning cloud, mobile communication and cyber security, data and network security including physical IT-security. Also consulting companies and current research will have a place.
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BTAS 2018
Researchers of the Fraunhofer IGD could sucessfully place two papers at the IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS) platziert. BTAS 2018 is aimed to showcase current research on biometric technologies and is an international forum for new ideas and usage for this field. Biometric systems that feature insides on voice, fingerprint, iris, face, handwriting, gait and other modalities as well as the newest sensor technologies are in special focus at this flaggship conference of the IEEE Biometrics Council.
CRISP-Researcher Prof. Christoph Busch, Hochschule Darmstadt, is member of the organistion committee.
Public Expert Discussion in the German Bundestag:"»Cybersecurity« Perspektives for a secured digital space"“
The task force PEASEC of the TU Darmstadt lead by Prof. Christian Reuter provided one of four experts for digital security. Thomas Reinhold presented on the public expert discussion on "»Cybersecurity« Perspektives for a secured digital space" for the work groups IV, V und VI of the parliamentary group DIE LINKE.
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CRISP-Researchers point out security gap in the Domain Name System
As part of the CRISP flagship project "Secure Internet Infrastructures", scientists at Fraunhofer SIT have found a way to issue fraudulent website certificates that are used to ensure trustworthiness of Internet domains. The team lead by CRISP-researcher Dr. Haya Shulman, Fraunhofer SIT, has shown that the weakness in the domain validation can be exploited in real life and that the security of Internet infrastructures needs to be improved. To do so the researchers have informed Web CAs (Certificate Authorities) and suggest a new implementation that Web CAs may use to mitigate the attack.
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