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ATHENE publishes white paper on the CRA

Connected products are to become more secure across the EU - that is the aim of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), an EU regulation that is currently being voted on and is expected to come into force this year. In our latest whitepaper, our researchers address the latest version of the CRA draft and explain which companies and products are likely to be subject to which obligations.

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Accepted papers at the EACL 2024

ATHENE researcher Prof. Iryna Gurevych presented seven papers at the 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Associations for Computational Linguistics, EACL for short. Two of them were directly related to her research work in the ATHENE research project "Fake News and Conspiracy Theories" from the research area Secure Digital Transformation in Health Care ( SeDiTraH). EACL is one of the leading European conferences in the field of computational linguistics covering a broad spectrum of research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language.

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ATHENE position paper calls for data protection precautions

Cyber­security researchers are often unable to comply with data protection regulations because they do not know before the start of a research activity whether and what personal data they will be processing. Our data protection experts have therefore formulated a proposed addition to the GDPR. Their concern: The legally binding introduction of data protection precautions that take unplanned data access into account.

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ATHENE researchers discover fundamental design flaws in DNSSEC

Led by Prof. Haya Schulmann of Goethe University Frankfurt, a team of ATHENE researchers has uncovered a critical flaw in the design of DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions), which is a vulnerability in all Domain Name System (DNS) implementations. DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet. Without a fix, the design flaw could have devastating consequences for virtually all DNS implementations using DNSSEC and public DNS providers such as Google and Cloudflare.

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Accepted papers on the CHI 2024

Three papers written by ATHENE researchers were accepted at the A*-ranked ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI for short. The annual conference is the premier inter­national conference of Human-Computer Interaction.

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