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Online Course to secure the Company's IT Infrastructure
CRISP scientists from Fraunhofer SIT have already prepared the first web training for IT-Grundschutz and have now completely revised and modernized it on behalf of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). The online course offers a practice-oriented and compact introduction to information security with IT baseline protection.
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HSFK Annual Conference 2018: Verification in Crisis, the Crisis of Verification
This year's HSFK conference of the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research has the motto "Verification in Crisis - Crisis of Verification. New Technology as a Hurdle to and Enabler of Verification in Arms Control " and will address the role of new technologies in arms control. Prof. Christian Reuter, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, talks about "Verification in Cyberspace" in the panel Emerging Technologies and the Impact of Software.
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Dangerous Security Holes in Tracker Apps
Tracker apps provide a means for legitimate personal tracking, i.e. for parents to locate their children. Many tracker apps, however, contain serious security vulnerabilities. CRISP-researchers of Fraunhofer SIT have analyzed popular tracker apps available in the Google Play Store – the result: not even one of them was secure; all had serious security flaws. Attackers can exploit these vulnerabilities to generate movement profiles, to read chats and text messages, and to view pictures.
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Three papers accepted at top conferences IEEE S&P and ACM CCS
Three papers from the group of Prof. Sebastian Faus, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, have been accepted to the the top conferences IEEE S&P and ACM CCS.
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Start-up desof the Month
Authada is a Darmstadt cybersecurity startup and a spin-off of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. Authada's identification solutions are build on the eID functionality of the ID card. Authada revolutionises existing identification processes - people are identified in seconds by means of a mobile or stationary NFC-enabled terminal. It is legally secure on the basis of German and EU legislation, as well as application-safe due to the certification of these solutions by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
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