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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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VDE Tec Summit 2018
With this years VDE Tec Summit 2018 celebrations are in order for the 125th anniversery of the VDE association Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V. Approximately 1500 participants from industry, science and politics are expected to discuss and report on the digital transformation in application areas like energy, industry, mobility, health, living and cyber-security. Prof. Christoph Krauß, Fraunhofer SIT, and CRISP managing director will highlight challenges for cyber-security in different business segments in their presentations.
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Start of the HyServ project: Hybrid Services in digitalised Cooperations
Since August 1st 2018 CRISP researchers develop innovative service concepts and interfaces in the context of the project consortium „Hybride Dienstleistungen in digitalisierten Kooperationen“ (HyServ - Hybrid Services in digitalised Cooperations). Prof. Christian Reuter and Sebastian Linsner, both CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, research and develop these concepts for providers and users likewise. Their findings are illustrated and tested by using cooperative operating processes in argriculture.
Only a few days ago the kick-off event of the project has taken place in Kaiserlautern.
Department "Mensch-Computer- Interaktion der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V."
In the expert group „Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion in sicherheitskritischen Systemen“ of the department "Mensch-Computer-Interaktion" of Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (Society of informatics) a new executive committee had to be elected. The current spokesman Prof. Christian Reuter, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, was reelected as well as his vice Prof. Tilo Mentler, Universität zu Lübeck. Prof. Stefan Geisler, Hochschule Ruhr West was replaced by Prof. Simon Nestler, Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt. The terms of office of this new executive committee will last from 2018 to 2021.
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digital Hessen: IT-Security for small and medium-sized Enterprises
As part of a special event measures on how to increase IT-security of small and medium-sized enterprises are discussed at the Haus der Wirtschaft Südhessen. Including the key features for their IT-security strategies and possible recommended actions. Dr. Ruben Niederhagen, Fraunhofer SIT, will present on the topic of "Next Generation Crypto".
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