The CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security is a German national Big Science Institution within the Helmholtz Association. Its research agenda encompasses all aspects of Information Security.
As a Helmholtz Center for Information Security, we are dedicated to cutting-edge foundational research combined with innovative application-oriented research in the areas of cybersecurity, privacy, and artificial intelligence.
Stay informed about the latest breakthroughs, publications, and innovations from our research teams. Explore our original insights, research articles, and press releases, and don’t miss out on upcoming events and conferences.
We at CISPA strive to offer scientists, along with their partners and families a pleasant and friendly living environment. This means that at our research center, all of us are on first-name terms.
Transferring our research into applications and products is one of CISPA's core tasks. In this way, we ensure that the economy and society at large can benefit from pioneering innovations, state-of-the-art technologies and our latest research findings.
At CISPA, we organize and participate in a variety of knowledge transfer activities. They range from public events and trade fairs to policy consultation and citizens' dialogues.
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The CISPA has been awarded the highest rating of “Outstanding” across all evaluation criteria as part of a comprehensive scientific review.
Congratulations! The European Commission has extended "ELSA – European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI" for an additional twelve months.
A new chapter in European Artificial Intelligence (AI) research begins with the launch of ELLIOT.
After a positive evaluation of his research achievements, Sebastian Stich has now been appointed tenured Faculty.
CISPA researcher Sumair Hashmi has conducted a study to investigate how people from this group protect themselves against cyber attacks.
From 12:45 PM to 6:00 PM, the historic grounds of the Alte Schmelz in St. Ingbert will be transformed into a place of discovery and experience.
CISPA PhD student Klemmer from the Hanover site in conversation about his studies in user-centered IT security and privacy research.
Our machine learning expert has successfully completed the tenure track at CISPA.
CISPA-researcher Professor Dr. Andreas Zeller is the first German to receive an ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award.
Episode 39 of CISPA TL;DR is now online!
Masudul Bhuiyan compared 200,000 websites from 20 developing and developed countries to find out abou security and data privacy differences.
On September 1, 2025, Michael Pradel will start his new position as tenured Faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security.
A new study by CISPA researcher Yusra Elbitar shows that whether we grant apps access often depends significantly on how the request is worded.
On April 2, 2025, CISPA was awarded the "Welcome Star" in the "Coming" category.
In this interview, Krikamol Muandet and Wouter Lueks offer behind-the-scenes insights and explain why these lectures are so relevant.
Episode 38 of CISPA TL;DR is now online!
On Tuesday, March 18, 2025, CISPA researchers and startups met with guests from politics, business, and academia at the ESMT in Berlin.
CISPA researcher Philip Klostermeyer has investigated the challenges posed by security considerations in game development.
CISPA researchers participated in this year’s NDSS (Network and Distributed System Security) Symposium from February 24 to 28, 2025!
A qualitative study by CISPA researcher and psychologist Dr. Maria Hellenthal and colleagues reveals the reasons.
This publication summarizes selected research findings from the past year.
YuraScanner, a new automated web application scanner, autonomously understands and executes tasks and workflows on web applications.
In Episode 37 of CISPA TLDR, Aleksei Safeev introduces Yura Scanner, a new type of scanner that uses ChatGPT to scan apps in a “human-like” way.
CISPA Founding Director and CEO, Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Backes has signed the Africa Charter.
The CISPA faculty talks about his experiences in preparing for the “Usable Security” summer school.
The construction of the new building for the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security at the Neumann site in St. Ingbert is about to begin.
The current zine's cover story looks back on the event and features insights from organizers and guests.
Find out what the concept of a summer school is all about in the current issue of the CISPA Zine.
With the use of CSS, it has now become possible to perform digital fingerprinting even within the restrictive environment of HTML emails.
The latest episode of our podcast CISPA TL;DR is out now - you can listen to it here and on all major podcast platforms.
The upcoming CISPA-ELLIS-Summer School 2025 will focus on "Trustworthy AI - Secure and Safe Foundation Models"
CISPA researchers joined this years NeurIPS Conference (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) from Dec 10 – Dec 15 in Vancouver!
CISPA researcher Andrea Mengascini conducted a study on metaverse platforms and discovered significant risks in terms of a lack of privacy.
CISPA and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are starting an institutional research cooperation.
On December 3, researchers from CISPA and the French research institute Loria came together for a workshop on Formal Methods.
The European Research Council is funding Sebastian Stich's innovative research project "Collective Minds" with approximately two million euros.
Organizing its first Fem Future Forum, CISPA has highlighted the significance of female role models in Tech.
CISPA researcher Aleksei Stafeev presents a study that systematizes the knowledge about web crawlers in the field of web security measurement.
The Academia Europaea, the Pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences, has inducted CISPA-Faculty Andreas Zeller as a member.
On November 28, the Fem Future Forum will be highlighting the significance of female STEM entrepreneurship for society and the economy.
In this interview, Dr. Volker Strobel tells us about his fascination for swarm intelligence and his rewarding research stay at CISPA.
The Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport supports a CISPA project on the cyber resilience of autonomous vehicles with over 2 million euros.
Using a tool called PromptStealer that she developed, Shen and her colleagues were able to extract the original prompt from AI-generated images.
An interdisciplinary project team led by CISPA is conducting research into the privacy-preserving use of large language models in the health sector.
CISPA-Faculty Dr. Wouter Lueks developed a tool in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross to prevent the depuplication of aid.
In this interview, PhD student Saiid El Hajj Chehade from EPFL in Lausanne tells us how he experienced his internship at CISPA.
From September 9th to 11th, members of the ELSA – European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI gathered to discuss latest developments in safe AI.
CISPA-Faculty Professor Dr. Cas Cremers talks about CISPA's contribution to the project LOKI-Pandemics.
In a large-scale study, CISPA researcher Dr. Bhupendra Acharya shows how scammers make money with fake support offers on social media.
The researcher will receive around 1.5 million euros in funding over the next five years for his research into topology-sensitive algorithms.
CISPA researcher Alfusainey Jallow proves that security-relevant updates of code snippets often do not find their way into the software.
Every year in mid-August, the devcom in Cologne is all about the computer and gaming industry.
A new vulnerability named GhostWrite fully compromises the integrity of the high-end RISC-V CPU XuanTie C910 manufactured by T-Head.
Foundational research is a decisive factor in solving the most pressing problems of cyber security in the long term.
These vulnerabilities put the communication security of millions of mobile phone customers worldwide at risk.
The interdisciplinary research alliance led by Professor Dr. Jens Gerken (TU Dortmund) has been awarded 1.5 million euros.
The latest episode of our podcast is now online. Listen to it here or wherever you get your podcasts.
In “TESTABLE”, a project that the EU is funding with almost five million euros, they are working together to achieve a common goal.
"CISPA Display 2023", the first CISPA yearbook created by Corporate Communications, is launched today.
People and systems are increasingly interconnected across the globe.
After reviewing more than 200 ambitious applications, a jury composed of internal and external experts has now selected five companies.
The security of digital systems and trustworthy artificial intelligence are not only the key concerns of CISPA, but they are global challenges.
Many online services rely on login notifications to inform users about unusual login activity on their accounts.
From 2021, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security has been offering a training program for office management clerks.
On July 11, 2024, the school lab of the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security hosts an open lab day at the Beckerturm in St. Ingbert.
Anna Ascheman is currently completing her Master’s at Stanford University, studying Computer Science with a focus on cybersecurity.
On June 3, a cryptography workshop in Nancy brought together almost 30 researchers as part of the virtual “French-German Center for Cybersecurity".
AI-generated images, texts and audio files are so convincing that people are no longer able to distinguish them from human-generated content.
A new episode of our CISPA-TL;DR podcast is online! It is another installment of our #WomenInCybersecurity series.
Zoom is one of the most popular software products for video conferencing in the world.
When it comes to promoting girls in the natural sciences and computer science, role models play an important role.
Dr. Adam Dziedzic He tells us how he intends to achieve his goal, what drives him, and why CISPA is the right choice for him.
Episode 31 of TL;DR is out now!
This semester, three of the four Busy Beaver Awards go to CISPA Faculty Dr. Franziska Boenisch, Dr. Sven Bugiel and Dr. Ben Stock.
The network of excellence “ELSA - European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI”, which is coordinated by CISPA, met in London on March 18.
CISPA is offering two Summer Schools focusing on two key areas of Cybersecurity in July 2024.
It is obvious: A study can only be as good as the collection and analysis of the data has been.
The experts discussed the many technical, legal and ethical challenges that arise when implementing control mechanisms in AI systems.
As part of the 42nd Federal Computer Science Competition, the Computer Science Junior Camp took place from March 20-23.
A new Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack targets application-layer protocols that draw on the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) for end-to-end communication.
For early-career researchers, exchanging ideas with top scientists in their research field is crucial.
The latest episode of our podcast is now live and available on all popular podcast platforms.
Providing a consistent user journey is a key principle in web design.
CISPA researchers Dr. Lea Schönherr, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Holz and Prof. Dr. Mario Fritz are contributing to the project.
They are a new type of phishing attack, first studied by CISPA researcher and PhD candidate Giada Stivala and her colleagues.
Millions of users use browser extensions on a daily basis, for example, to block advertisements on websites.
In this episode of TL;DR, Giada Stivala talks about how she scoured hacker forums to get to the bottom of these attacks.
On days 3 and 4 at CCS in Copenhagen, Sven Bugiel and Ben Stock show us how previously ownerless papers get to reviewers.
The startup QuantPi, supported by CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, has received 2.5 million euros in funding from the EIC.
On day 2 of CCS Copenhagen, we are treated to a huge banquet and party, as well as insights into the subtle distinctions between the conferences.
Because one thing is for sure: fun and knowledge sharing can go hand in hand.
When people use online security mechanisms, they do so for a variety of reasons. In some cases, different mechanisms are even combined with each other
This short travel diary captures what we, the CISPA Corporate Communications team, experienced there.
Backes is recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to information security and privacy.
A new episode of our CISPA-TL;DR podcast is online! It is again part of our #WomenInCybersecurity series.
Michael Schwarz has been researching side-channel attacks in microarchitectures and system security at CISPA since 2020.
Online stores, social media accounts, online banking - internet users need passwords everywhere.
Groundbreaking research, close exchange with industry representatives, strategic research orientation, policy advice at the highest level.
For TL;DR episode 27, we venture into the great unknown that is space with CISPA-Faculty Dr. Ali Abbasi!
Our second scientific event in 2024: Summer School on Cryptography is taking place in Saarbruecken July 29-31, 2024
Scientific event in July for phD students and graduate students takes place in Saarbruecken from July 22 - 26, 2024.
CISPA researcher Soroush H. Zargarbashi and his colleagues have successfully tested a new method to define a set of possible predictions.
Technology transfer at CISPA has climbed to new heights in 2023, with a record number of startup being funded and innovative programs.
It is Dr. Franziska Boenisch's mission to design machine learning in a way that benefits society while also protecting privacy.
We talk about how AirTags work, what "anti-stalking features" already exist and why they often do not provide sufficient protection against misuse.
The winning team includes Tobias Ebelshäuser, Sebastian Klöckner, Lea Mosbach, Annabelle Theobald and Janine Wichmann-Paulus.
The research agenda published today outlines how ELSA will be tackling the major challenges of secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence.
So-called Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) was developed by AMD with the primary goal of making its cloud services more secure.
CISPA researcher Yiting Qu has investigated how effective filters can prevent AI image generators from creating unsafe images.
A digital expert and publicist, Thomas Sattelberger has a particular interest in questions of innovation, transformation and research.
CISPA is further expanding its research cooperation with France, thus strengthening cross-border collaboration.
Saarland University honored the former CISPA researcher for her outstanding dissertation.
The Computer Science Students’ Council at Saarland University awards the Busy Beaver to lecturers who have shown a special commitment to teaching.
Two Distinguished Paper Awards at this year's USENIX cybersecurity conference went to research papers co-authored by Alexander Dax.
"Deceptive Security" charts the development of the „Tamarin Prover“, a software for the formal verification of security protocols.
Aurore joined our tenure-track program on September 1. Her research focuses on security vulnerabilities in the JavaScript programming language.
The CISPA-supported startup LUBIS EDA will receive 2.5 million euros in funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC) starting in 2024.
CISPA startups and spin-offs are expected to have great potential.
Few people realize that authentication of chat partners is crucial to prevent attacks on the messaging process.
The goal of the meeting, at which the 26 partners came together, was to present their latest research results and plan the future of the network.
For one week, members of CISPA's Corporate Communications department traveled to Anaheim, California.
The 24th episode of our very own podcast TL;DR is online! We are talking about MobileAtlas, an infrastructure for mobile network tests across Europe.
On Pitch Day #1, seven startups from the CISPA Incubator applied for initial funding from the CISPA Venture Capital Fund.
Our photographers and editors were on site the entire day and have compiled a review of the event. Enjoy!
5,000 citizens accepted the invitation to St. Ingbert and experienced current research topics in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence first hand.
On “Pitch Day #1”, which is taking place in Saarbrücken today, selected startups are presenting themselves to the jury, applying for initial funding.
The omnipresence of images on the internet and the exponential learning curve of AI image generators heighten the risk of image manipulations.
Rebekka Burkholz wants to democratize machine learning.
In his Cryptosystems project, Loss intends to use cryptographic methods to improve the efficiency and robustness of distributed algorithms.
Krikamol and his colleagues have summarized the vision for their group's work in a piece of writing entitled the "Rational Intelligence Manifesto".
It is important to Rudolf and his colleagues that cybersecurity become recognized both as a field of research and a field of work among psychologists.
Quality in science is measured, among other things, by whether studies can be reproduced by other scientists and still yield the same result.
Bringing together lectures, concerts and hands-on activities, the event program promises an exciting day out for the entire family.
For the video series "Faces of CISPA", two Faculty recount how they experienced their start at CISPA and what support they received along the way.
With the introduction of chatbots such as ChatGPT and BingChat, large language models (LLM) have entered the everyday life of internet users.
At the public event “CISPA❤️St. Ingbert” on September 16, CISPA will introduce itself to the citizens of St. Ingbert.
"As a cellular network researcher, you are in some ways a prisoner of your geographic position," says CISPA researcher Dr. Adrian Dabrowski.
In this episode of TL;DR, Ben tells us how secure e-mails really are, why you should double check who the sender of a suspicious e-mail really is.
From August 9-11, 2023, the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium will be held in Anaheim, California.
With Collide+Power, Michael Schwarz and Lukas Gerlach have discovered a new power side-channel attack that directly targets the CPU.
Increased awareness in society about information security is important for coping with the challenges of the digital world.
In their study, Ali Abbasi and Thorsten Holz investigate the security issues that accompany the dawning of the “New Space Era”.
Science communication is Zeller's "hobbyhorse” trotting along his great passion and profession: making software better and more secure.
The ICML, short for International Conference on Machine Learning, is one of the international top conferences in the field of machine learning.
In the interview, Dais tells us why CISPA reminds him of an atomic lattice, why cybersecurity fascinates him, and what makes up great teams.
Christine Utz investigated how website operators can be alerted to an inadequate implementation of the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive on their sites.
A year after the publication of our first CISPA Zine, we are now presenting Zine No. 5. This issue is entirely dedicated to knowledge transfer.
Supported by CISPA, the MIT Club of Germany hosted the regional conference "Schule MIT Wissenschaft" in Saarbruecken last weekend.
We talked with her about how to communicate Complex Research and Technology.
Episode 22 is part of our special series #WomenInCybersecurity. In this episode, we discuss the security of LLMs with Dr. Lea Schönherr.
A short interview on the new German National Security Strategy
With a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), CISPA further expands its research cooperation with France.
Guthoff presented her paper "Perceptions of Distributed Ledger Technology Key Management" at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P).
Dr. Siegfried Dais has been appointed to the supervisory board of the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security.
Zhikun Zhang explains what Differential Privacy is, what problems it still faces, and how he wants to help make the process even better.
In this episode, Dr. Christoph Lenzen tells us why it's important that cell phones only talk to cell phone towers when it's their turn to talk.
From March 23 to 25, experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning from across Europe met in Helsinki.
Dr. Wouter Lueks and his colleagues from EPFL have developed a new privacy-friendly solution for large-scale humanitarian-aid distribution.
The cooperation in the "French-German Center for Cybersecurity (FGCC)” has been further strengthened with a Memorandum of Understanding.
Professor Dr Andreas Zeller has received another Most Influential Paper Award from the 20th MSR in Melbourne.
Password managers are designed to help users securely manage their login data for online accounts.
The ERC is supporting Lenzen with a Proof of Concept Grant of 150,000 euros to bring his groundbreaking research to application.
A successfully defended doctoral dissertation is the foundation of an academic career. CISPA-researcher Sebastian Roth mastered this step.
In the recent hiring season, CISPA has once again managed to attract an outstanding group of researchers.
On today's Girls' and Boys' Day, CISPA invited young people from the Saarland to explore future-oriented professions.
CISPA Faculty Dr Mridula Singh has received the Busy-Beaver-Award for her outstanding teaching performance in the previous winter term.
A new specification language called ISLa is set to enhance automated software testing or fuzzing.
After successfully completing the tenure track program, Dr Giancarlo Pellegrino and Dr Yang Zhang have been appointed tenured Faculty at CISPA.
Fabian Schwarz and his colleagues have now developed FeIDo, a new method that does not require special user hardware.
Leon Trampert and Lorenz Hetterich both graduated with a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity from Saarland University.
CISPA Faculty Prof Dr Andreas Zeller has done it again – he receives a second ERC Advanced grant worth 2.5 million euros!
Prof Dr Andreas Zeller's vision is to make every piece of software in the world automatically testable.
The goal of a student internship is to gain insight into the real world of work.
In this episode we talk to one of our latest Faculty hires, Dr Wouter Lueks, about his work.
CISPA Faculty Dr Lea Schönherr's research focuses on different types of attacks on machine learning models.
In the ImageTox project, HIPS and CISPA are pooling their expertise in the fields of drug discovery and artificial intelligence (AI).
Visual digital certificates could be a secure and privacy-friendly approach to making official documents available digitally.
Summer School 2023 taking place at CISPA from August 21-25 on System Security.
Health data such as blood counts, genetic information or MRI findings of study participants play a crucial role in the development of modern drugs.
During our visit to Hanover, CISPA Faculty Prof Dr Sascha Fahl tells us how CISPA made its way to Lower Saxony and what part he played in the process.
In his paper "Automatic Detection of Speculative Execution Combinations," PhD student and CISPA researcher Xaver Fabian presents a new approach.
CISPA TL;DR goes to Hannover! For this episode, we visited our branch in Hanover, our „satellite“ in cooperation with the Leibniz University Hanover.
CISPA's Tech Transfer Department provides insights into its work.
As a lecturer, CISPA faculty Dr. -Ing. Ben Stock regularly teaches students at Saarland University the foundations of cyber and web security.
The fact that computer programs can solve certain tasks is only one half of the equation.
"Although the web attack technique DOM Clobbering has been known since 2010, it has received far too little attention," says CISPA researcher Soheil.
At a joint event on November 30th, 2022, CISPA researchers and Airbus experts provided exciting insights into research.
Episode 15 of CISPA's TL;DR podcast is online.
Cybercriminals attempt to obtain money, data, and the computing power of web users using a wide variety of methods.
With the help of a research-team, she is dedicated to accented speech research in Africa.
In June 2022, Airbus and CISPA announced the establishment of the Airbus-CISPA Digital Innovation Hub.
Episode 14 of the CISPA Podcast TL;DR is online.
The center of excellence for cybersecurity and trusted intelligence is set to create numerous jobs throughout the region in the coming years.
Computer science students at Saarland University honor the CISPA researcher for the second time for his outstanding performance.
ELSA, a recently established AI center of excellence composed of top European researchers met in Barcelona for the first time.
This is the 5th CISPA-Loria workshop since the French-German Center for Cybersecurity was established in 2020.
Exciting challenges, engaging workshops, and a great party at the Saarlandhalle
CISPA researcher Matthias Fassl investigated how far expectations and reality diverge.
Episode 13 of the CISPA Podcast TL;DR is online.
Since July 2020, the Chrome browser, by default, only transfers cookies from the website that users are currently visiting.
Open source code is found in many software systems and is considered by many to be more secure than unpublished code in proprietary software.
CISPA TL;DR Episode 12
CISPA faculty member Sebastian Stich is receiving a 100,000 Dollar grant from Meta Research.
CISPA researcher Dingfan Chen is being honored by international tech company Qualcomm for her innovative research approach.
Paper presentations with involvement by CISPA researchers, August 12
Paper presentations with involvement by CISPA researchers, August 11
Paper presentations with involvement by CISPA researchers, August 10
After Spectre, Meltdown, and Zombieload, another vulnerability in modern processors has shaken users' data security.
The European Research Council has awarded CISPA Faculty Prof. Bernd Finkbeiner an ERC Advanced Grant.
CISPA TL;DR Episode 11 is online now!
A large network of top European experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning is to promote the development of cutting-edge AI solutions.
The newly tenured faculty joined us from the Ruhr University in Bochum, where he has been researching and teaching for the past 11.5 years.
Everything went quickly for our senior scientist Dr. Nico Döttling in recent months.
Dr. Yang Zhang, faculty at CISPA, is working on the international research project "D-Solve" for the personalized treatment of hepatitis D.
Our Scientific Summer School in September!
HZI coordinates project developing an early warning software for public health departments
Unlike humans, artificial intelligence (AI) truly has the memory of an elephant.
CISPA TL;DR Episode 10 is online now!
Competence center to create over 500 jobs in Saarland region in Germany.
Supervisory Board of CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security meets in presence for the first time in two years.
The senior scientist will receive around 80,000 euros for his research on the security of so-called mix networks.
The computer scientist conducts software and hardware security research and joins CISPA from Ruhr University Bochum.
The number of our senior scientists continues to grow. On October 1, Xiao Zhang will join CISPA from the University of Virginia.
CISPA-TL;DR Episode 9
The information engineer is an expert in so-called adversarial machine learning, i.e., machine learning from an attacker's perspective.
Another top researcher joins the group of senior scientists at CISPA. Krikamol Muandet will join CISPA on September 1.
Researchers and responsible persons of the CISPA, the KIT, and the Cyberagentur met in Saarbrücken on Wednesday.
A native of the Netherlands, Wouter Lueks joins CISPA from EPFL and is an expert in designing privacy-friendly systems.
Summer is just around the corner and the enrollment deadlines for the winter semester are already approaching.
Most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany take many technical measures to protect their data and secure computer systems.
CISPA podcast TL;DR – Episode 8
On Thursday, April 28, scientists from both research institutions again exchanged their work on IT security at the CISPA-Loria workshop.
CISPA participated in Boys' Day for the first time this year.
A novel attack allows attackers to inject machine learning models with new tasks undetected and make them work for them.
The increasing proliferation of blockchain-based digital currencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum has sparked interest among central banks worldwide.
Saar University students honor the CISPA researcher for his outstanding teaching.
In this episode of the CISPA podcast TL;DR (in German) we talk to CISPA faculty Prof. Dr. Thorsten Holz about software security.
Promoting the settlement of startups on the CISPA Innovation Campus in St. Ingbert
The NortonLifeLock company funds Xinlei He's innovative research on the security and privacy of machine learning systems with $20,000.
Venture capitalist places great trust in cybersecurity research at CISPA
CISPA researcher Prof. Dr. Thorsten Holz is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) with a Consolidator Grant of about 2 million euros.
Do you know Dr. Aleksandar Bojchevski? No? It has been shown that most likely you do know him "by six degrees of separation".
In capture-the-flag competitions (CTFs), which are worldwide cybersecurity challenges, Team Saarsec regularly demonstrates its skills.
Foundation stone for innovative high-tech research campus
Several internship positions for Ukrainian computer science students
The mathematician explains how it works and why this field of research is so exciting.
In TL;DR (short for too long, didn't read) we talk to our researchers month for month about their work in the fields of IT security and AI.
Since their emergence 13 years ago, blockchain-based payment systems have increasingly become a possible alternative to traditional payment systems.
In TL;DR (short for too long, didn't read), we talk with one of our researchers every month about their work in the fields of IT security and AI.
The Internet, cell phone networks, control elements in vehicles - everywhere, independent computers work together in a network.
"We want to make artificial intelligence trustworthy," says Lukas Bieringer, Chief Operating Officer of the Saarbrücken-based startup QuantPi.
CISPA researcher Dr. Nico Döttling is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) with a Starting Grant of almost 1.5 million Euros for his research
For the new year, Dr. Vaibhav Bajpai takes up his new position in Hannover.
The new CISPA tool "Dr. Headerson" helps to check websites for vulnerabilities that allow so-called clickjacking attacks.
In our podcast TL;DR (short for too long, didn't read) we talk to our researchers about their work in the fields of IT security and AI.
The results of their work, which can be read in the paper "Rapid Prototyping for Microarchitectural Attacks," were presented at USEIX Security.
New tool helps to check IT infrastructures for critical vulnerability
Joint Project with Prof. Jörn Müller-Quade from KIT in Karlsruhe
The 25-year-old presented his paper "Osiris: Automated Discovery of Microarchitectural Side Channels" at the renowned IT conference USENIX.
Statement by the Alliance of Science Organisations
IT security researchers from both countries shared their research and presented the results of their collaboration on Tuesday.
After a probationary period, Dr. Katharina Krombholz, Dr. -Ing. Ben Stock, Dr. Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Dr. Nico Döttling, and Dr. -Ing. Sven Bugiel ...
In our podcast TL;DR we talk to our researchers about their work in the fields of IT security and artificial intelligence once a month.
In his awarded bachelor's thesis, Wilhelm presents the IT security tool retroCSP.
Installing a content security policy (CSP) on websites could be a real game-changer in terms of web security.
Nowadays, smartphones and smartwatches already find use in unlocking doors or contactless payments at the cash register.
Innovative cooperation between Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security Saarbrücken.
He succeeds Diplom-Kaufmann Bernd Therre, who retired on July 31, 2021, and sadly passed away a short time later.
We talked to him about what the new job in management means to him and what will change at CISPA with him.
If you don't want to spend time slogging through long research papers, but still want to discover things from the world of IT security, listen TL;DR
CISPA faculty member Dr. Rebekka Burkholz researches machine learning methods that help fight cancer.
CISPA researcher Dr. Robert Künnemann researches accountability in crypto protocols.
The German Research Foundation is funding a project by CISPA faculty Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller and Prof. Dr. Lars Grunske of Humboldt University.
CISPA faculty member Michael Schwarz and an international team of researchers have discovered a novel Spectre attack and developed a defense tool.
On Spotify, Deezer, Soundcloud, and Apple Podcasts, cybersecurity research is now available for your listening pleasure
CISPA faculty Prof. Bernd Finkbeiner wants to use automatically programmed monitoring components to get drones and air taxis into the air safely.
CISPA researcher Johannes Krupp is awarded a Distinguished Paper Award for his new approach to tracking specific DDoS attacks.
CISPA experts on the problems with the Luca app
In his SOUPS paper, CISPA researcher Alexander Ponticello sheds light on new authentication mechanisms for voice assistants.
At the renowned USENIX Security Symposium, Soheil Khodayari presented the JAW analysis tool.
CISPA researcher Prof. Dr. Mario Fritz is researching possible ways to detect deepfakes.
CISPA Researcher Dr. Ben Stock on the CSP Security Mechanism and the need for empowered users
USENIX is one of 4 ranked A* conferences in security
CISPA researcher Dr. Marco Vassena received a Distinguished Paper Award for his work at the POPL conference.
CISPA researcher Matthias Fassl on false security promises by VPN providers
The research of new CISPA faculty member Dr. Christoph Lenzen focuses on how cooperating computers stay in sync without sacrificing performance.
Save the date: Cybersecurity for everybody – Experience your digital future!
Expert for system-level IT security starts in Saarbrücken on October 1
Microsoft funds the work of CISPA researcher Dr. Jacqueline Brendel with more than 60.000 euros
Registrations are now open
The answer is yes. Nils Ole Tippenhauer explains how secure wireless connections are and why IT security research must be given a higher priority.
CISPA startup DeepSign in the finals of the German Cybersecurity Cup
CISPA faculty member Cas Cremers on the challenges of work on the contact tracing tool
After "The Fuzzing Book," CISPA faculty member Andreas Zeller has now published the "The Debugging Book." It shows how computers help to fix programs.
CISPA researcher and professional "Ghostbuster" Marco Patrignani aims to fend off Spectre attacks with secure compilers.
In their alt.chi paper "Stop the Consent Theater," Lea Gröber and Matthias Fassl argue for new approaches to data privacy on websites.
Starting this fall, new top international scientists will be conducting research at the Cybersecurity Center in Saarbrücken.
CISPA faculty member Christian Rossow talks about first lessons learned from the Solarwinds attack.
What criminals and companies can do with sensitive health data
CISPA faculty member Dr. Nico Döttling on quantum computing and quantum cryptography
Start in the winter semester 2021/2022
CISPA faculty member Dr. Swen Jacobs wants to make it easier to obtain systems with reliable safety guarantees.
EU funds the Cysec4Psych project
Saar University students honor CISPA researchers for their teaching
The center is dedicated to living and promoting diversity and tolerance
Can you find the hidden "eggs"?
CISPA researcher Aurore Fass presented her findings at the CCS IT conference.
Workshops for schoolgirls
The first CISPA satellite is currently being built in Hanover in cooperation with Leibniz University and the state of Lower Saxony.
His research inspires the community
PHD student Marius Steffens presented his findings at the NDSS IT conference.
To detect and interrupt chains of infection at an early stage during the Corona pandemic, effective contact tracing management is required.
Main prize for the team around former CISPA faculty member Stefan Nürnberger
Austrian Research Award for Outstanding Dissertation
Informative lecture for young scientists
Central statements from a radio interview
Playfully teaching children the basics of IT security
First virtual workshop of the Franco-German Center for Cybersecurity
Advantages and disadvantages of different messengers
Helmholtz Center takes first place in Computer Science Rankings
An international team of security researchers including CISPA Faculty Michael Schwarz is presenting new side-channel attacks.
Finalist in the category "Engineering and Technology"
Niedersachsen supports cooperation between CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and Leibniz University of Hannover.
Green light for site "Alte Schmelz”
The project named “PRO-GENE-GEN” has a total volume of about 360,000 euros.
He was also involved in the earlier work of DP-3T, promoted the decentralised approach, and coordinated communication with all partners.
The Corona-Warn-App is ready!
The number of faculty at CISPA continues to grow. Rayna Dimitrova moves from the University of Sheffield to Saarbrücken.
Three new faculty, Lucjan Hanzlik, Michael Schwarz and Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, are set to start at CISPA.
Helmholtz and CISPA welcome the Federal Government’s decision in favor of a consistently decentralized approach in the development of a tracing app.
The undersigned statement represents scientists and researchers from across the globe.
CISPA’s withdrawal from PEPP-PT and ongoing contribution to DP-3T
In a large-scale study, a team of cyber security researchers, including CISPA-Faculty Giancarlo Pellegrino, identified severe security issues.
This prize of 16,500 € is one of the most important science prizes of the Saarland.
We are currently experiencing an extreme situation regarding global restrictions on work and life.
On 1 July Dániel Marx takes up his new position as faculty at CISPA.
Three new venture projects have now been launched.
The new French-German Center for Cybersecurity has officially been kicked off.
On 1 February, Yang takes up his position as a faculty member of CISPA.
Giancarlo Pellegrino and Antoine Joux have accepted a Faculty position at CISPA.
The CISPA – Helmholtz Center for Information Security is hiring new faculty.
The foundation stone for a large-scale cooperation with South Korea was laid in Saarbrücken on Wednesday, 28 August.
French cryptographer and future CISPA faculty Antoine Joux was awarded again recently, this time with the IACR Test-of-Time Award.
On June 5, 2019, a meeting of the Supervisory Board took place at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security.
The goal is, among other things, to strengthen exchange of faculty members and staff, to promote joint research projects, conferences, seminars...
For the first time this year, the „CISPA Incubator Advisory Board“ met in Saarbrücken.
The first day will be dedicated to Introductions and Networking.
They received the award at the NDSS Symposium in San Diego, where they presented their paper.
Johannes Krupp, PhD student with Prof. Dr. Christian Rossow, was awarded the Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship.
On February 5, 2019, numerous Researchers presented the central challenges that European Cybersecurity Research is planning to address.
On February 5, 2019, the German Federal Minister for Education and Research, Anja Karliczek, visited the Helmholtz Center for Information Security.
CISPA researcher Ninja Marnau commented on the “Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace”, an international agreement.
Across the world, researchers collect patient data to develop novel treatments for widespread diseases such as dementia, strokes, or tumor diseases.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Backes has been named an IEEE Fellow.
CISPA Researcher Jilles Vreeken joined CISPA as a Faculty on October 1, 2018.
The President of Saarland University and the Founding Director of CISPA signed a cooperation agreement.
In October, CISPA and LORIA in France organized a German-French PhD workshop.
In October, CISPA presented current research projects together with Symantec at Europe’s largest IT-Security fair it-sa.
In October, the Dutch King Willem-Alexander and his wife Quee Máxima visited Saarland University during his annual tour.
On October 1, 2018, Prof. Dr. Michael Backes, founding director of the CISPA, received the honoris causa doctorate by Université de Lorraine.
On September 11, 2018 we received the official approval of the Helmholtz Association that we will become the 19th Helmholtz Center.
Software systems are prone to attacks if users do not use them properly.
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are increasingly attracting millions of users.
Every minute, users upload tens of thousands of images to the internet.
To find an unlocked car it is often enough to test several doors of cars parked in a car park. C
According to statistics database Statista, some 3.76 million apps could be downloaded this month from the Google Play Store alone.
Studying IT security while simultaneously establishing a company is exactly what a new course at the IT research center of Saarland University offers.
Christian Rossow and his research group at the CISPA Helmholtz Center in Saarbrücken are researching attacks that strike fear.
The Internet has developed over time and is able to function because of the interplay between various services.
If software errors go undetected, this can not only reduce sales significantly.
On December 13, 2017, the official founding documents were signed.
The new Helmholtz Center for Information Security will be built on campus in close vicinity to the current research center for IT Security CISPA.
The current Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA) will be merged into the new center.
