cispa_news_2636 en 185 1778450400 Am 9. und 10. Mai fand in Warschau der sechste regionale Vorentscheid der CISPA European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship statt. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/news-archive/articles/2026/11-05-26-hackathon-warschau cispa_news_2625 en 185 1778104800 Which risks arise when body-worn mini computers become part of everyday life? This is the question that CISPA researcher Dañiel Gerhardt has investigated. https://cispa.de/en/on-body-interaction-techniques cispa_news_2622 en 185 1777500000 The laying of the foundation stone today in St. Ingbert marks the start of construction on the new research campus of the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. https://cispa.de/en/foundation-stone-laying cispa_news_2606 en 185 1776290400 As part of his tour of all 18 Helmholtz Centers, he learned about our current research, spoke with early-career researchers, and met CISPA startups. https://cispa.de/en/martin-keller-visit cispa_news_2593 en 185 1776204000 Die Edition 2026 des CISPA Display ist erschienen und in gedruckter und digitaler Form verfügbar https://cispa.de/en/cispa-display-edition-2026 cispa_news_2602 en 185 1775944800 On April 11 and 12, the fifth regional qualifier of the CISPA European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship took place in Mataró. https://cispa.de/en/hackathon-barcelona cispa_news_2595 en 185 1775772000 Aditya Kumar has developed a test dataset called ToxicBench that shows how well image AIs handle offensive inputs. https://cispa.de/en/ToxicBench cispa_news_2589 en 185 1774908000 In this interview, doctoral student representative Keno Hassler offers insights into daily life as a PhD candidate at CISPA. https://cispa.de/en/interview-zine cispa_news_2590 en 185 1774908000 Episode 48 of CISPA TL;DR is out now! https://cispa.de/en/TLDR-48 cispa_news_2587 en 185 1774821600 Michael Bailey will give a talk on Monday, April 27 2026, at 2 pm. https://cispa.de/en/dls-bailey cispa_news_2583 en 185 1774479600 Current cybersecurity challenges were discussed in a confidential forum. https://cispa.de/en/cyber-briefing-berlin cispa_news_2576 en 185 1774306800 Eisenhofer's goal is to make entire systems more secure. https://cispa.de/en/eisenhofer cispa_news_2580 en 185 1774220400 On March 20–21, 2026, the fourth regional qualifier of the CISPA Hackathon Championship took place at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). https://cispa.de/en/hackathon-munich cispa_news_2557 en 185 1773961200 After signing Memoranda of Understanding with the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) in October 2025, a CISPA delegation traveled to South Africa in February to further expand the relationship with both cooperation partners. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-in-south-africa-2026 cispa_news_2568 en 185 1773874800 Our ECAS team supports PhD candidates and postdocs in their professional development, career planning, and everyday challenges. https://cispa.de/en/ecas cispa_news_2561 en 185 1773702000 Dr. Moritz Schloegel’s mission is to uncover vulnerabilities in software in order to make it more secure. https://cispa.de/en/new-faculty-schloegel cispa_news_2552 en 185 1773010800 CISPA-Faculty Cas Cremers has been awarded the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography. Cremers receives this honor together with David Basin (ETH Zurich), Jannik Dreier (Université de Lorraine/Loria), and Ralf Sasse (ETH Zurich) for their sustained work on the Tamarin Prover, an open-source analysis tool for cryptographic protocols. https://cispa.de/en/levchin-prize cispa_news_2554 en 185 1773010800 Deno promised “secure by default.” A CISPA study shows: safer than Node.js—but two core security concepts can open new attack surfaces. https://cispa.de/en/deno cispa_news_2550 en 185 1772146800 CISPA is continuing to advance the expansion of its future-oriented site in St. Ingbert. With the CISPA Campus, an integrated complex is being created that brings together world-leading research, innovation, and start-ups in one location. In total, more than 1,600 people will be able to work on the CISPA Campus in the future. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-campus-igb cispa_news_2549 en 185 1772060400 How the specification language RTLola helps with monitoring drone flights. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/news-archive/articles/2026/26-02-26-news-tldr-47 cispa_news_2547 en 185 1772060400 Episode 47 of our podcast CISPA-TL;DR is now online! In this episode, we talk with CISPA researcher Jan Baumeister about the certification and monitoring of drones. Drones have evolved from a nerdy tech topic into an important technology of the future that must meet a wide range of standards — including many safety features. In the podcast, Jan Baumeister explains the different types of drones, how and why they are certified, and how the tool RTLola, which he co-developed, helps monitor drone flights. He also shares insights into his time as a PhD student at CISPA. The conversation was conducted in German. Enjoy listening! https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/insights/podcast/podcast/2026/26-02-26-tldr-47 cispa_news_2546 en 185 1771974000 The CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and the Munich Security Conference (MSC) will collaborate in the future to combine their respective expertise and strengthen the exchange between research and security policy practice. https://cispa.de/en/msc cispa_news_2538 en 185 1771196400 On February 14 and 15, 2026, the third regional preliminary round took place at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-hackathon-championship-stockholm cispa_news_2532 en 185 1770332400 New security updates in Android 16 are based, among other things, on research by CISPA-Faculty Dr. Maximilian Golla. https://cispa.de/en/smartphone-theft cispa_news_2530 en 185 1770159600 Episode 46 of CISPA TL;DR is out now! https://cispa.de/en/ews-tldr-46 cispa_news_2525 en 185 1770159600 Episode 46 of CISPA TL;DR is out now! https://cispa.de/en/tldr-46 cispa_news_2523 en 185 1770073200 CISPA researcher Jannis Rautenstrauch has systematically investigated how browsers process security headers. https://cispa.de/en/security-header cispa_news_2517 en 185 1769641200 Learn more about Dr. Adam Kortylewski, who joined CISPA as tenure-track faculty in November 2025. https://cispa.de/en/new-faculty-kortylewski cispa_news_2516 en 185 1769468400 From February 16 to 18, the CISPA-UCT Summer School “AI, Security & Privacy” will take place in Cape Town. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-uct-summer-school-2026 cispa_news_2512 en 185 1768518000 The startup NetBird, supported by the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, has secured €8.5 million from private investors. https://cispa.de/en/netbird-series-a-pm cispa_news_2496 en 185 1768431600 StackWarp shows how attackers can bypass AMD Zen 1–5 cloud protections to manipulate data and take over virtual machines. https://cispa.de/en/stackwarp cispa_news_2506 en 185 1768431600 Scientific Event by CISPA and UCT focusing on AI, Security & Privacy. In Cape Town, South Africa https://cispa.de/summer-school-uct cispa_news_2505 en 185 1767654000 Dr. Jane Im's mission is to completely rethink social media systems and how they work. https://cispa.de/en/new-faculty-im cispa_news_2494 en 185 1767567600 On January 1, 2026, CISPA-Faculty Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller was elevated to IEEE Fellow. Fellow is the highest grade of membership in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which is the world's largest professional organization for electrical engineering, computing, and related technical disciplines. https://cispa.de/en/zeller-ieee-fellow cispa_news_2489 en 185 1766444400 We spoke with CISPA researcher Fabian Thomas about timer-free cache-leak attacks on modern ARM CPUs. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-45-news cispa_news_2488 en 185 1766444400 We spoke with a CISPA researcher about how cache leaks can occur in modern ARM CPUs even without timers. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode-45 cispa_news_2486 en 185 1765926000 Exoskeletons are often seen as future tech, yet already reduce physical strain in logistics and manufacturing. But real-world demands are complex. CISPA researcher Julian Rodemann, with LMU Munich and Harvard’s Biodesign Lab, uses machine learning to find and explain optimal assistance settings. https://cispa.de/en/exosuits cispa_news_2474 en 185 1765753200 On December 13 and 14, 2025, the second regional preliminary round took place at the University of Vienna. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-hackathon-championship-vienna cispa_news_2469 en 185 1765234800 In her SyReP project, Rayna is developing new synthesis methods for reactive software systems. https://cispa.de/en/erc-grant-rayna cispa_news_2463 en 185 1764802800 CISPA researcher develops a research approach to create more inclusive datasets and assess biases in AI models. https://cispa.de/en/afonja-worldwidedishes cispa_news_2467 en 185 1764716400 Interview with the Representative for Employees with Disabilities on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3. https://cispa.de/en/interview-sbv cispa_news_2461 en 185 1764630000 Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) awarded an honorary doctorate to CISPA-Director Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Backes yesterday evening. With this recognition, LUH honors his outstanding scientific achievements in the field of cybersecurity. https://cispa.de/en/backes-luh-honorary-doctorate cispa_news_2455 en 185 1764198000 Listen to the latest episode of our podcast! We talk about how your inbox could be spying on you. https://cispa.de/en/news-TLDR-44 cispa_news_2452 en 185 1764198000 Episode 44 of CISPA TL;DR is out now! https://cispa.de/en/TLDR-44 cispa_news_2447 en 185 1763938800 On November 22 and 23, 2025, the first regional qualifying round of the CISPA European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship took place at the Grande Arche in Paris. IT students from France and all across Europe came together to compete in a 24-hour hackathon and solve tailored tasks at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. The top three teams qualified for the finals in St. Ingbert in June 2026. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-hackathon-championship-paris cispa_news_2443 en 185 1763506800 The business magazine Capital recognizing CISPA-Faculty Michael Schwarz as “one of the leading minds in cybersecurity research.” https://cispa.de/en/top40under40 cispa_news_2438 en 185 1763420400 Dr. Karl-Eugen Huthmacher, Staatssekretär a.D. im Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, ist der neue Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende des CISPA Helmholtz-Zentrums für Informationssicherheit. Der gebürtige Saarbrücker ist in der Aufsichtsratssitzung am 17. November 2025 in das Amt gewählt worden. https://cispa.de/en/chairman-huthmacher cispa_news_2434 en 185 1762902000 CISPA cryptography expert Hanzlik has successfully completed the tenure track phase. https://cispa.de/en/hanzlik-tenured cispa_news_2431 en 185 1762729200 CISPA-Faculty Dr. Franziska Boenisch and Dr. Adam Dziedzic explain the concept behind the CISPA European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship. https://cispa.de/en/interview-hackathon-championship cispa_news_2427 en 185 1762470000 On November 6, 2025, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) honored CISPA-Director Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Backes as “TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor”. With this honorary title, TUM recognizes his groundbreaking contributions to cybersecurity and privacy. https://cispa.de/en/backes-distinguished-affiliated-professorship cispa_news_2429 en 185 1762210800 Under the motto “Cookies, Code & Confetti – 5 Years of Experiencing Cybersecurity,” invited guests and employees celebrated the anniversary. https://cispa.de/5-years-cispa-cysec-lab cispa_news_2423 en 185 1760652000 A new qualitative study by CISPA researcher Alexander Ponticello highlights the community's practices and challenges. https://cispa.de/en/accessibility-by-design cispa_news_2421 en 185 1760565600 CISPA and the city of St. Ingbert have further developed their plans for the CISPA Innovation Campus and found a private-sector partner in Peter Gross Bau, which will develop the campus originally announced in 2019. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-innocampus-private-funding cispa_news_2418 en 185 1760479200 CISPA has recently signed Memoranda of Understanding with both the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS). After joining the Africa Charter in January 2025, CISPA is now delivering on its Africa Strategy, building new partnerships with excellent research institutions on the African Continent. https://cispa.de/en/uct-wits cispa_news_2411 en 185 1760047200 Dr. Jonas Hielscher’s mission is to study the human factor in cybersecurity and privacy protection, focussing on cybersecurity in organizations. In early summer, he became a tenure-track Faculty at CISPA. In our conversation, Hielscher shares what brought him to CISPA, the focus areas of his research, and what he plans for his tenure-track phase. https://cispa.de/en/hielscher-faculty cispa_news_2417 en 185 1759960800 From October 1 to 4, Saarbrücken welcomed visitors from all over Germany and neighboring countries to celebrate together. https://cispa.de/en/tdde cispa_news_2404 en 185 1759788000 Episode 43 of our podcast CISPA-TL;DR is online! In this episode, we talk to CISPA researcher Julian Siber about algorithmic fairness. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode-43 cispa_news_2413 en 185 1759442400 On Thursday, October 2, 2025, the second CISPA CYBER BRIEFING took place in Saarbrücken as part of the celebrations for German Unity Day. CISPA researchers, founders, and representatives from politics and industry gathered at the Camera Zwo cinema to discuss how digital resilience and trust in digital systems can be strengthened. https://cispa.de/en/cyber-briefing-camera-zwo cispa_news_2391 en 185 1759183200 Liberate AI, an interdisciplinary research project, aims to develop an AI model capable of supporting doctors in the treatment of ischemic stroke. Serving as a digital assistance system, the AI model is intended to predict the long-term outcome of patients after mechanical thrombectomy as well as potential complications. https://cispa.de/en/liberate-ai cispa_news_2407 en 185 1759096800 The CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are deepening their collaboration through joint initiatives to promote research transfer, innovation, and company foundations in Munich. https://cispa.de/en/tum-transfer cispa_news_2359 en 185 1758751200 Connecting Europe’s brightest young minds, CISPA’s new championship fosters next-gen talent in cybersecurity and trustworthy AI. https://cispa.de/en/launch-hackathon-championship cispa_news_2397 en 185 1758492000 CISPA researcher has developed an AI system that can automatically detect abnormalities in zebrafish embryo development. https://cispa.de/en/sivaprasad-anomaly-detection cispa_news_2405 en 185 1758146400 Listen to our new podcast! We explore the topic of bias and fairness in algorithms based on CISPA research. https://cispa.de/en/news-tldr-episode-43 cispa_news_2401 en 185 1758060000 Kertos has secured the largest investment to date in an incubator startup at CISPA and, for the first time, Series A financing. https://cispa.de/en/kertos-series-a cispa_news_2370 en 185 1757887200 Major Recognition for Our Machine Learning Expert https://cispa.de/en/boenisch-werner-von-siemens-fellow cispa_news_2384 en 185 1757368800 Following a successful evaluation of his research achievements, Jacobs is offered a tenured position as a scientist. https://cispa.de/en/jacobs-tenured cispa_news_2368 en 185 1756936800 In the Privacy4FMs project, CISPA-Faculty Dr. Franziska Boenisch is developing new methods to better protect sensitive data in large AI models. https://cispa.de/en/erc-grant-boenisch cispa_news_2380 en 185 1756764000 CISPA researcher Carolyn Guthoff talks about her research stay in South Korea. https://cispa.de/en/seoul cispa_news_2341 en 185 1756072800 Exploring the possibilities and limitations of cryptographic methods is what drives Dr. Willy Quach. https://cispa.de/en/willy-quach cispa_news_2358 en 185 1755468000 Acharya devoted a large part of his work at CISPA to understanding online fraud and scam schemes on social networks. https://cispa.de/en/interview-acharya-onlinebetrug cispa_news_2351 en 185 1755036000 Listen to our special USENIX 2025 conference episodes of TL;DR! https://cispa.de/en/TLDR-Usenix-News-2 cispa_news_2347 en 185 1755036000 Listen to our special USENIX 2025 conference episodes of TL;DR! https://cispa.de/en/tldr-usenix25-2 cispa_news_2350 en 185 1754949600 Listen to our special USENIX 2025 conference episodes of TL;DR! https://cispa.de/en/TLDR-Usenix-News-1 cispa_news_2346 en 185 1754949600 Listen to our special USENIX 2025 conference episodes of TL;DR! https://cispa.de/en/tldr-usenix25-1 cispa_news_2337 en 185 1754863200 In a qualitative interview study with 21 international participants, CISPA researcher Alexander Krause investigated the obstacles experienced software developers face when they want to renew existing crypto implementations—or even create better cryptographic functions from scratch. https://cispa.de/en/crypto-updates cispa_news_2339 en 185 1754517600 Episode 42 of our podcast CISPA TL;DR is now live! https://cispa.de/en/TLDR_42_news cispa_news_2338 en 185 1754431200 Episode 42 of our podcast CISPA TL;DR is now live! https://cispa.de/en/TLDR_42 cispa_news_2332 en 185 1754344800 In this interview, Dr. Bugiel shares what he values about the Empirical Research Support team and how the collaboration works. https://cispa.de/en/interview-bugiel cispa_news_2326 en 185 1754258400 A code-reuse attack named Coroutine Frame-Oriented Programming (CFOP) is capable of exploiting C++ coroutines across three major compilers, namely Clang/LLVM, GCC and MSVC. https://cispa.de/en/cfop cispa_news_2328 en 185 1753999200 On August 1, 2025 Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Minister President of Saarland Anke Rehlinger visited CISPA. https://cispa.de/en/federal-chancellor-at-cispa cispa_news_2325 en 185 1753826400 This article introduces the work of CISPA’s Empirical Research Support team and what it stands for. https://cispa.de/en/zine-8-article cispa_news_2322 en 185 1753221600 How CISPA supports researchers in empirical and human-centered security research. https://cispa.de/en/zine-8 cispa_news_2276 en 185 1753135200 In this interview, Professor Isabella Aboderin tells us about the culture shift in the research ecosystem that the Africa Charter seeks to initiate. https://cispa.de/en/aboderin cispa_news_2264 en 185 1752703200 With CDI, CISPA researcher Antoni Kowalczuk has developed a method that could strengthen copyright protection for creators in the future. https://cispa.de/en/kowalczuk-cdi cispa_news_2282 en 185 1752444000 To transfer his ERC Advanced Grant “S3 – Semantics of Software Systems” into practice, Zeller is receiving an additional €150,000. https://cispa.de/en/erc-proof-of-concept-zeller cispa_news_2262 en 185 1751925600 Durch gezielte Fault Injection deckt der Netzwerk-Fuzzer „Fuzztruction-Net“ neue Sicherheitslücken auf – selbst in gut getesteter Software. https://cispa.de/en/fuzzstruction cispa_news_2273 en 185 1751580000 Episode 41 of our podcast CISPA-TL;DR is online! https://cispa.de/en/TLDR_41_news cispa_news_2269 en 185 1751580000 Episode 41 of our podcast CISPA-TL;DR is online! https://cispa.de/en/TLDR_41 cispa_news_2268 en 185 1751407200 The “Leibniz Center for Industrial Security” is receiving a total of 11 million euros in funding as part of the zukunft.niedersachsen program. https://cispa.de/en/Leibniz-Center-for-Industrial-Security cispa_news_2266 en 185 1751320800 At Viva Technology 2025, CISPA showcased how cutting-edge research and startups build trust as the foundation of Europe’s secure digital future. https://cispa.de/en/viva-technology-2025 cispa_news_2259 en 185 1750888800 FANDANGO, an open-source fuzzer, uses an evolutionary algorithm to automatically generate high-quality test inputs that satisfy defined constraints. https://cispa.de/en/fandango-release cispa_news_2258 en 185 1750629600 Glorious Sunshine and a Big Crowd at CISPA's Event at the Alte Schmelz https://cispa.de/en/review-cispa-loves-igb-2025 cispa_news_2254 en 185 1750111200 Congratulations! The European Commission has extended "ELSA – European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI" for an additional twelve months. https://cispa.de/en/elsa-extension cispa_news_2256 en 185 1750111200 In the 2025 international Helmholtz evaluation, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security was awarded the highest possible rating, “Outstanding,” in all categories. The review confirms CISPA’s global leadership in cybersecurity and its pioneering role in trusted artificial intelligence research. https://cispa.de/en/evaluation cispa_news_2252 en 185 1749679200 A new chapter in European AI research begins with the launch of ELLIOT – European Large Open Multi-Modal Foundation Models For Robust Generalization On Arbitrary Data Streams. Funded under the Horizon Europe program with €25 million, this four-year Research and Innovation Action brings together 30 leading organizations from 12 European countries. https://cispa.de/en/elliot-launch cispa_news_2216 en 185 1749592800 After a positive evaluation of his research achievements, Sebastian Stich has now been appointed tenured Faculty. https://cispa.de/en/stich-tenured cispa_news_2249 en 185 1749074400 Cristian Cadar will give a talk on "Program Analysis for Safe and Secure Software Evolution", Thursday, June 12, at 2 pm CET. https://cispa.de/en/dls-cadar cispa_news_2231 en 185 1748901600 CISPA researcher Sumair Hashmi has conducted a study to investigate how people from this group protect themselves against cyber attacks. https://cispa.de/en/hashmi-pakistan cispa_news_2248 en 185 1748556000 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. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/news-archive/articles/2025/cispa-loves-igb-25 cispa_news_2204 en 185 1747000800 CISPA PhD student Klemmer from the Hanover site in conversation about his studies in user-centered IT security and privacy research. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode-40-klemmer cispa_news_2205 en 185 1747000800 Episode 40 of our podcast CISPA-TL;DR is online! https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode-40 cispa_news_2185 en 185 1746568800 CISPA Faculty Dr. Rebekka Burkholz, an expert in machine learning, has successfully completed the tenure track at CISPA. https://cispa.de/en/burkholz-tenured cispa_news_2182 en 185 1746136800 CISPA-researcher Professor Dr. Andreas Zeller is the first German to receive an ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award. The award ceremony took place during the ICSE – IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, which is being held in Ottawa from April 27 to May 3, 2025. https://cispa.de/en/zeller-influential-educator cispa_news_2181 en 185 1745964000 Episode 39 of CISPA TL;DR is now online! https://cispa.de/en/image-generation-models-tldr cispa_news_2178 en 185 1745964000 Episode 39 of CISPA TL;DR is now online! https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode-39 cispa_news_2143 en 185 1745877600 Masudul Bhuiyan compared 200,000 websites from 20 developing and developed countries to find out abou security and data privacy differences. https://cispa.de/en/bhuiyan-unequal-internet cispa_news_2139 en 185 1745445600 On September 1, 2025, Michael Pradel will start his new position as tenured Faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. https://cispa.de/en/pradel-faculty cispa_news_2130 en 185 1744581600 A new study by CISPA researcher Yusra Elbitar shows that whether we grant apps access often depends significantly on how the request is worded. https://cispa.de/en/rationals cispa_news_2112 en 185 1743717600 To help international talent to settle in at CISPA, the Onboarding and Integration Team is constantly working to improve its integration services. On April 2, 2025, they were honored with the “Welcome Star” in the “Coming” category by the Ministry of Economic Affairs. https://cispa.de/en/welcome-star cispa_news_2108 en 185 1743030000 In this interview, Krikamol Muandet and Wouter Lueks offer behind-the-scenes insights and explain why these lectures are so relevant. https://cispa.de/en/dls cispa_news_2109 en 185 1742943600 Episode 38 of CISPA TL;DR is now online! https://cispa.de/en/compiler-optimizations cispa_news_2107 en 185 1742857200 Episode 38 of CISPA TL;DR is now online! https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode-38 cispa_news_2098 en 185 1742338800 The CISPA CYBER BRIEFING is a new event series designed to foster regular dialogue between CISPA’s top researchers and key players from politics and industry. https://cispa.de/en/cyber-briefing cispa_news_2094 en 185 1741820400 The video game industry is a constantly changing market worth billions. In a qualitative interview study with industry experts, CISPA researcher Philip Klostermeyer from the team of CISPA Faculty Prof. Dr. Sascha Fahl investigated the challenges involved in incorporating security considerations into game development. He published the results in the paper “Skipping the Security Side Quests: A Qualitative Study on Security Practices and Challenges in Game Development,” which was presented at the Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) in Salt Lake City in October 2024. https://cispa.de/en/security-in-videogame-development cispa_news_2074 en 185 1741042800 CISPA researchers participated in this year’s NDSS (Network and Distributed System Security) Symposium from February 24 to 28, 2025! https://cispa.de/en/NDSS-2025 cispa_news_2006 en 185 1740697200 Dr. Maria Hellenthal, along with her colleagues, explored the reasons for this in a qualitative study. Her paper The (Un)usual Suspects – Studying Reasons for Lacking Updates in WordPress will be presented at the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium in San Diego. https://cispa.de/en/wordpress cispa_news_2004 en 185 1740524400 The second edition of our CISPA Display has been released. This publication summarizes selected research findings from the past year and provides in-depth insights into current developments in cybersecurity and AI research. CISPA Display is available in both German and English and can be accessed digitally. https://cispa.de/en/display-2025 cispa_news_1997 en 185 1740092400 A new automated web application scanner autonomously understands and executes tasks and workflows on web applications. The tool named YuraScanner was developed by CISPA researchers and harnesses the world knowledge stored in Large Language Models (LLMs) to navigate through web applications in the same way a human user would. https://cispa.de/en/yurascanner cispa_news_2072 en 185 1740006000 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. https://cispa.de/en/web-application-scanners cispa_news_1999 en 185 1740006000 Episode 37 of our podcast CISPA-TL;DR is now online! https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode-37 cispa_news_1965 en 185 1737414000 CISPA Founding Director and CEO, Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Backes has signed the Africa Charter. https://cispa.de/en/signing-africa-charter cispa_news_1952 en 185 1737068400 Both the quality and the attractiveness of a scientific symposium depend on the selection of speakers. For the CISPA summer school on usable security which took place in July 2024, this responsibility as well as the scientific management of the event was in the hands of CISPA-Faculty Professor Dr. Sascha Fahl. In our interview, he tells us about his experiences in the preparation of the Summer School. https://cispa.de/en/zine-7-interview-fahl cispa_news_1963 en 185 1736809200 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. In December 2024, the Federal Government and Saarland signed a consortium agreement that also addresses the funding for the construction and operation of the new CISPA building. https://cispa.de/en/new-cispa-building-in-igb cispa_news_1961 en 185 1736722800 Episode 36 of our podcast CISPA-TL;DR is now online! https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode-36 cispa_news_1949 en 185 1736463600 Usable Security is a field of research in cybersecurity that has gained increasing popularity in recent years. This year, the field served as the central theme for the CISPA Summer School for the first time. In the current zine's cover story, we look back on the event and hear from organizer Andrea Ruffing, as well as speakers and participants. https://cispa.de/en/zine-7-reportage cispa_news_1946 en 185 1736118000 /en/zine-7 https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/news-archive/articles/2025/25-01-08-zine7 cispa_news_1938 en 185 1735858800 With the use of CSS, it has now become possible to perform digital fingerprinting even within the restrictive environment of HTML emails. https://cispa.de/en/digital-fingerprints cispa_news_2071 en 185 1735254000 The latest episode of our podcast CISPA TL;DR is out now - you can listen to it here and on all major podcast platforms. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/news-archive/articles/2024/24-12-27-podcast-aurora cispa_news_1942 en 185 1734649200 With the holidays just around the corner, you’ll probably want to send greetings to your loved ones via your favorite messaging app. But have you ever stopped to think about how secure your messages really are? Could they be at risk of being read by prying eyes – whether people or organizations? That’s exactly what Aurora Naska is working on: secure messaging. In this episode, we dive into what happens behind the scenes to keep your messages safe, why getting frequent error messages in those apps could be worth paying attention to, and whether messaging apps are really as secure as they claim to be. Enjoy listening! https://cispa.de/en/TLDR-episode35 cispa_news_1940 en 185 1734476400 Applications are closed! https://cispa.de/summer-school-2025 cispa_news_1933 en 185 1734303600 CISPA researchers joined this years NeurIPS Conference (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) from Dec 10 – Dec 15 in Vancouver! https://cispa.de/en/NeurIPS_2024 cispa_news_1930 en 185 1734044400 Having access to virtual worlds from your home computer via your web browser and being able to interact with others in a secure and private manner: that is the promise of metaverse platforms. CISPA researcher Andrea Mengascini conducted a reality check on this promise and discovered significant risks in terms of a lack of privacy and the danger of cyberattacks. He presented his st https://cispa.de/en/mengascini-metaverse cispa_news_1932 en 185 1733698800 The CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are starting an institutional research cooperation. https://cispa.de/en/tum cispa_news_1928 en 185 1733180400 As part of the virtual French-German Center for Cybersecurity (FGCC), researchers from CISPA and the French research institute Loria came together on December 3 for a workshop on Formal Methods. Through six presentations, participants deepened their technical exchange on current questions surrounding the workshop topic and agreed on further research collaborations. https://cispa.de/en/fgcc-workshop-2024 cispa_news_1926 en 185 1733094000 The European Research Council is funding Sebastian Stich's innovative research project "Collective Minds" with approximately two million euros. https://cispa.de/en/collective-minds cispa_news_1921 en 185 1732834800 CISPA researcher Aleksei Stafeev presents a study that systematizes the knowledge about web crawlers in the field of web security measurement. https://cispa.de/en/stafeev-webcrawlers cispa_news_1923 en 185 1732834800 Hosting its first Fem Future Forum, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security highlighted the importance of female role models in the tech industry. Prominent speakers from the startup scene, business, and research spoke about their career paths in different STEM professions. https://cispa.de/en/femfutureforum cispa_news_1919 en 185 1732662000 The Academia Europaea, the Pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences based in London, has inducted CISPA-Faculty Professor Dr. Andreas Zeller as a member. Membership in the Academia Europaea is by invitation only and it requires sustained academic excellence with international impact. https://cispa.de/en/academia-europaea-zeller cispa_news_1914 en 185 1732230000 “Together we are strong”, says swarm robotics researcher Dr. Volker Strobel who, funded by the Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy (HIDA), was able to spent three months as a guest researcher at CISPA. Together with CISPA-Faculty Professor Dr. Mario Fritz, he examined the security aspects of swarm robots. https://cispa.de/en/swarm-robotics cispa_news_1917 en 185 1732230000 On November 28, the Fem Future Forum organized by CISPA will be highlighting the significance of female STEM entrepreneurship for the economy and society. https://cispa.de/en/go-to-femfutureforum cispa_news_1913 en 185 1730674800 Episode 34 of our podcast CISPA-TL;DR is online! In this episode, we talk with CISPA researcher Ulli Holtgrave about the topic of knowledge transfer. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode-34 cispa_news_1907 en 185 1730242800 A CISPA project on the cyber resilience of autonomous vehicles receives more than 2 million euros in funding from the Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport. The project called “CYPHER-AV” was submitted by Ali Abbasi, Mridula Singh and Nils Ole Tippenhauer, who intend to protect sensor systems for autonomous driving against cyberattacks. https://cispa.de/en/cypher-av cispa_news_1905 en 185 1730242800 Emtiyaz Khan will give a talk on "How to make machines that adapt quickly", Friday, November 15, at 15 pm. https://cispa.de/en/dls-khan cispa_news_1909 en 185 1730070000 Using a tool called PromptStealer that she developed, Shen and her colleagues were able to extract the original prompt from AI-generated images. https://cispa.de/en/shen-promptstealing cispa_news_1902 en 185 1729202400 ILLUMINATION unites technical, legal, medical and human-centered perspectives to develop an application for the clinical setting that will help medical personnel to prioritize emergency patients more quickly. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding ILLUMINATION for three years with a total of around 1.7 million euros. https://cispa.de/en/illumination-kickoff cispa_news_1900 en 185 1728511200 CISPA-Faculty Dr. Wouter Lueks developed a tool in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross to prevent the depuplication of aid. https://cispa.de/en/lueks-janus cispa_news_1894 en 185 1728338400 In this special German edition of our podcast, Adrian Dabrowski and Gabriel Gegenhuber talk to us about two critical security vulnerabilities in WLAN calling that they recently uncovered. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-wlan-calling cispa_news_1891 en 185 1728252000 Time for another round of our TL;DR conference special! At USENIX 2024 in Philadelphia, we met an old CISPA friend: Dr. Sebastian Roth, Postdoc at TU Vienna. https://cispa.de/en/CISPAatUSENIX_Sebastian cispa_news_1889 en 185 1727215200 In this interview, PhD student Saiid El Hajj Chehade from EPFL in Lausanne tells us how he experienced his internship at CISPA. https://cispa.de/en/interview-saiidelhajjchehade cispa_news_1885 en 185 1726783200 From September 9th to 11th, members of the ELSA – European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI gathered in the Lake District, North England, to discuss their work and the latest developments in safe and secure artificial intelligence (AI). https://cispa.de/en/elsa-gam-2024 cispa_news_1882 en 185 1726610400 Since July 2022, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security has been involved in a project which aims at developing a local early warning system to control outbreaks of infection. We spoke to CISPA-Faculty Professor Dr. Cas Cremers about CISPA's contribution to the project. https://cispa.de/en/interview-cremers-loki-pandemics cispa_news_1881 en 185 1726437600 The increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies has turned social media into a central place where users look for help when they have problems with their crypto wallet or private key. Scammers take advantage of this situation to make money with fake support offerings or to gain access to wallets or keys. CISPA researcher Dr. Bhupendra Acharya has presented the first large-scale study on how these scams work and provided an end-to-end analysis of the scam operations in X (formerly known as Twitter). He presented his findings at S&P in May 2024. https://cispa.de/en/acharya-technicalsupportscams cispa_news_1878 en 185 1725487200 Sebastian Brandt will receive around 1.5 million euros in funding over the next five years for his research into topology-sensitive algorithms. https://cispa.de/en/erc-grant-ola-topsens cispa_news_1875 en 185 1724882400 Round 2 of our summer conference series: at ICML in Vienna, we sat down with Rebekka Burkholz to talk about her research and the latest in machine learning. Rebekka joined CISPA in 2021 and has since been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to make neural networks more efficient with her research. In this podcast, we discuss how she applies her scientific background in physics to the fi https://cispa.de/en/CISPAatICML_Rebekka cispa_news_1867 en 185 1724796000 This summer, we ventured out of the safe and sound surroundings of the CISPA offices and accompanied our researchers to their most important science events: conferences! At the end of July, we went to Vienna to attend the International Conference on Machine Learning. And with the hallway being the most important part of a conference anyway, we sat down there with Krikamol Muandet https://cispa.de/en/CISPAatICML_Krikamol cispa_news_1864 en 185 1724623200 A common practice among software developers is to use so-called code snippets from the platform Stack Overflow. A study by CISPA researcher Alfusainey Jallow now shows that this can lead to security risks in the long run. https://cispa.de/en/jallow-stackoverflow cispa_news_1705 en 185 1724104800 Every year in mid-August, the devcom in Cologne is all about the computer and gaming industry. Until now, cybersecurity has been more of a marginal topic. This year, CISPA researcher Philip Klostermeyer was highlighting the importance of cybersecurity for the gaming industry with his presentation at devcom, the developer conference of Gamescom. https://cispa.de/en/vortrag-devcom cispa_news_1702 en 185 1722981600 A vulnerability named GhostWrite fully compromises the integrity of the high-end RISC-V CPU “XuanTie C910" manufactured by T-Head. Discovered by CISPA-researchers, GhostWrite grants attackers full read-and-write access to physical memory on the C910. It also entirely bypasses virtual memory and caches and is invisible in performance counters. https://cispa.de/en/ghostwrite cispa_news_1699 en 185 1722463200 Foundational research is a decisive factor in solving the most pressing problems of cyber security in the long term. Cryptography expert Dr Julian Loss is one of the people who is passionate about this. After joining CISPA in October 2021, he has now successfully completed the tenure track following a positive evaluation of his research achievements. https://cispa.de/en/loss-tenured cispa_news_1701 en 185 1722290400 CISPA researcher Adrian Dabrowski, together with colleagues from SBA Research and the University of Vienna, has discovered two major security vulnerabilities in the mobile protocol Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi), also known as WLAN calling. These vulnerabilities put the communication security of millions of mobile phone customers worldwide at risk. Updates to fix the problems have now b https://cispa.de/en/wlan-calling cispa_news_1673 en 185 1721772000 In their funding program "Ladenburger Kolleg", the "Daimler und Benz Stiftung" now focuses on political participation: The research project entitled "AI-based methods to support opinion formation and participation" will examine the ways in which artificial intelligence can be employed to verify and contextualize information. https://cispa.de/en/ladenburgerkolleg-2024 cispa_news_1672 en 185 1721253600 The latest episode of our podcast is now online. Listen to it here or wherever you get your podcasts. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-conferences cispa_news_1670 en 185 1721253600 Episode 33 of CISPA TL;DR is online! With CISPA-Faculty Dr. Katharina Krombholz and Dr. Ben Stock, we talk about the important role that conferences play in science. Katharina and Ben give us an insight into the peer review process . They also explain how conferences work and shed light on the huge organizational effort conferences require. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-it-security-conferences cispa_news_1592 en 185 1721167200 Pluribus One, SAP, NortonLifeLock (formerly Symantec), TU Braunschweig, Eurecom, Shiftleft, IMQ Minded Security, UC3M and also CISPA: It is hardly possible to bring together a greater number of reputable institutions from industry and academe. In “TESTABLE” they are working together to achieve a common goal. https://cispa.de/en/testable cispa_news_1667 en 185 1720994400 Martina will give a talk on "‘Security Awareness’ – old news from the corporate frontlines and trenches", on Tuesday, July 16, at 11 am CEST. https://cispa.de/en/dls-sasse cispa_news_1666 en 185 1720562400 "CISPA Display 2023", the first research-related CISPA yearbook, collects all the texts that the Science Communication department published on CISPA research papers in 2023. Every text is complemented by an individually designed graphic that visualizes the respective research topic. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-display-2023 cispa_news_1648 en 185 1720476000 People and systems are increasingly interconnected across the globe. For this reason, research into the security of the digital space and the trustworthiness of artificial intelligence cannot stop at national borders. https://cispa.de/en/zine-cover-story cispa_news_1502 en 185 1720389600 Issuing its first Industry Call last year, the network of excellence ELSA called on startups to collaborate with ELSA on the development of secure and trustworthy AI applications. After reviewing more than 200 ambitious applications, a jury composed of internal and external experts has now selected six companies. https://cispa.de/en/winners-call cispa_news_1646 en 185 1719871200 The security of digital systems and trustworthy AI are global challenges. Research on these topics cannot stop at national borders, but has to keep its eyes trained on the bigger picture. If you want to know with whom, and in which ways, CISPA researchers cooperate on an international level please browse through the latest issue of our CISPA Zine. https://cispa.de/en/zine-6 cispa_news_1650 en 185 1719439200 Many online services rely on login notifications to inform users about unusual login activity on their accounts. Together with colleagues from Ruhr University Bochum and Leibniz University Hannover, CISPA Faculty Dr. Maximilian Golla has conducted a comprehensive study on this topic. https://cispa.de/en/golla-login-notifications cispa_news_1657 en 185 1719266400 From 2021, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security has been offering a training program for office management clerks. Sara Starck is the first apprentice to graduate from this program. https://cispa.de/en/ausbildungsabschluss-am-cispa cispa_news_1653 en 185 1718834400 Das Schülerlabor des CISPA Helmholtz-Zentrums für Informationssicherheit lädt am 11. Juli 2024 zum Tag der offenen Labortür in den Beckerturm in St. Ingbert ein. Schüler:innen, Lehrkräfte und Eltern haben an diesem Tag die Gelegenheit, viele verschiedene Bereiche der IT-Sicherheit genauer kennenzulernen und besser zu verstehen. https://cispa.de/en/open-lab-day-2024 cispa_news_1637 en 185 1717970400 Anna Ascheman is currently completing her Master’s at Stanford University, studying Computer Science with a focus on cybersecurity. In 2023, she did a research internship at CISPA. Working alongside CISPA-Faculty Professor Dr. Christian Rossow, she contributed to the discovery of a new Denial-of-Service loop attack. https://cispa.de/en/ascheman cispa_news_1633 en 185 1717452000 On June 3, a cryptography workshop in Nancy brought together almost 30 researchers as part of the virtual “French-German Center for Cybersecurity (FGCC)”. As part of the FGCC, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security is cooperating with the French institute Loria on various cybersecurity topics. Loria is a joint research unit of the French research institutions CNRS and Inria and the University of Lorraine. In lectures and working groups, the researchers deepened their professional exchange on current challenges in cryptography and agreed on further research collaborations. https://cispa.de/en/fgcc-workshop2024-nancy cispa_news_1626 en 185 1716242400 AI-generated images, texts and audio files are so convincing that people are no longer able to distinguish them from human-generated content. This is the result of an online survey with around 3,000 participants from Germany, China, and the USA. https://cispa.de/en/holz-ai-generated-media cispa_news_1625 en 185 1715724000 A new episode of our CISPA-TL;DR podcast is online! It is another installment of our #WomenInCybersecurity series, in which we talk to CISPA Faculty Dr. Franziska Boenisch about her fascination with machine learning and her enthusiasm for understanding the nature of large-scale language models. For Boenisch, this is driven by the desire to protect the privacy of users. Other topics covered in the podcast include the SPRINT ML Lab, which she co-founded, new research projects, the opportunities offered by open source models, the role of knowledge transfer and her commitment to promoting young female scientists. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode32-boenisch cispa_news_1624 en 185 1715724000 This episode of our CISPA-TL;DR podcast is again part of our #WomenInCybersecurity series. We talk to CISPA Faculty Dr. Franziska Boenisch about why privacy protection is important for large language models and what technical infrastructure is needed for research in this area. She also talks about how knowledge can be successfully transferred into politics, where she believes the challenges lie in German research funding and what she does to promote young female talent during their studies. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-boenisch cispa_news_1605 en 185 1715551200 CISPA-Faculty Professor Dr. Cas Cremers, his postdoc Mang Zhao, and Dr. Eyal Ronen, have developed a new method to control access to Zoom group conversations where the Zoom servers do not know the meeting password. They will present their corresponding research paper at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) in 2024. https://cispa.de/en/cremers-zoomgroups cispa_news_1615 en 185 1715032800 When it comes to promoting girls in the natural sciences and computer science, role models play an important role. That's why the CISPA Cysec Lab took on this topic for Girls Day 2024. CISPA-Faculty Dr. Aurore Fass and PhD student Anne Müller answered the questions of almost 50 Saarland schoolgirls during a discussion in St. Ingbert. https://cispa.de/en/girlsday2024 cispa_news_1608 en 185 1714687200 Making machine learning trustworthy is the goal of Dr. Adam Dziedzic. In September, the researcher moved from the Vector Institute and the University of Toronto to CISPA. He tells us how he intends to achieve his goal, what drives him, and why CISPA is the right choice for him. https://cispa.de/en/our-new-faculty cispa_news_1613 en 185 1713996000 Episode 31 of TL;DR is out now! https://cispa.de/en/tldr_new_episode_31 cispa_news_1610 en 185 1713996000 As End-to-end encryption is becoming ever more widespread in most popular messaging services, discussions have emerged to enable the scanning of texts and files directly on end-user-devices. Carolyn Guthoff and Divyanshu Bhardwaj, usable security researchers at CISPA, have looked into these systems in their latest study on Client-Side-Scanning. In this episode, they discuss potential implications such a system would bring and how Client-Side Scanning is perceived by experts, from cybersecurity researchers to law enforcement agencies. https://cispa.de/en/tldr_episode_31 cispa_news_1607 en 185 1713909600 Twice a year, the student council of the Computer Science Students’ Council at Saarland University awards prizes to lecturers who have drawn attention to themselves through their special commitment to teaching. This semester, three of the four Busy Beaver Awards go to CISPA Faculty Dr. Franziska Boenisch, Dr. Sven Bugiel and Dr. Ben Stock. https://cispa.de/en/busy-beaver-awards cispa_news_1598 en 185 1713391200 The network of excellence “ELSA - European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI”, which is coordinated by CISPA, met in London on March 18. At a public workshop on "Generative AI and Creative Arts", creators, legal scholars and scientists discussed the complex dynamics of generative artificial intelligence and copyright. https://cispa.de/en/workshop-ai-arts cispa_news_1595 en 185 1713132000 CISPA is offering two Summer Schools focusing on two key areas of Cybersecurity in July 2024.  https://cispa.de/summer-school-2024 cispa_news_1574 en 185 1712268000 A group of CISPA’s Empirical Research Support (ERS) team has for the first time systematically compared the best-known transcription services on the market. They presented the results as a poster and a short paper on the Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) in Copenhagen in November 2023. https://cispa.de/en/studie_transkriptionsdienste cispa_news_1579 en 185 1712095200 On March 18, 2024, researchers from ELSA - European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI met at the Alan Turing Institute in London to discuss their work on human oversight and control of artificial intelligence. https://cispa.de/en/elsa-london cispa_news_1525 en 185 1711407600 As part of the 42nd Federal Computer Science Competition, the Computer Science Junior Camp took place from March 20-23 at the CISPA Cysec Labs at Beckerturm in St. Ingbert. 20 students from all over Germany got the chance to explore cybersecurity issues and improve their programming skills. We visited the workshop and captured some impressions. https://cispa.de/en/juniorcamp_informatik cispa_news_1503 en 185 1710802800 A new Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack targets application-layer protocols that draw on the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) for end-to-end communication. The vulnerability affects both legacy and contemporary protocols. Discovered by Christian Rossow and Yepeng Pan, the attack puts an estimated 300,000 Internet hosts and their networks at risk. https://cispa.de/en/loop-dos cispa_news_1500 en 185 1710630000 For early-career researchers, exchanging ideas with top scientists in their research field is crucial. The ELLIS PhD & Postdoc Program connects PhD students and postdocs from all over Europe with top experts in all areas of machine learning - both in research and industry. https://cispa.de/en/ellis-phd-program cispa_news_1499 en 185 1710370800 The latest episode of our podcast is now live and available on all popular podcast platforms. https://cispa.de/en/podcast-hantke cispa_news_1495 en 185 1710370800 Amir will give a talk on "Provable Security for PKI Schemes - and the (Composable) Modular Security Specifications Framework", on Friday, April 12, at 10am CET.  https://cispa.de/dls-herzberg cispa_news_1497 en 185 1710370800 In the latest episode of CISPA TL;DR, web security researcher Florian Hantke tells us why the majority of web vulnerabilities can hardly be scientifically investigated so far. There's a reason: most of them are on the server side. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-server-side-scanning cispa_news_1434 en 185 1710284400 Providing a consistent user journey is a key principle in web design. This also applies to the implementation of new security standards such as two-factor authentication (2FA). For a new study, CISPA faculty member Dr. Sven Bugiel and his colleague Sanam Ghorbani Lyastani have developed guidelines on how to compare the 2FA process on websites from a user perspective. The results have been published in their paper "A Systematic Study of the Consistency of Two-Factor Authentication User Journeys on Top-Ranked Websites", presented at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2023. https://cispa.de/en/bugiel-2FA cispa_news_1488 en 185 1710198000 The research project "AIgenCY - Opportunities and risks of generative AI in cybersecurity" has been launched: Leading experts from science and industry are taking on the challenge of researching the implications of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for cybersecurity. https://cispa.de/en/aigency cispa_news_1429 en 185 1709247600 Clickbait PDFs are even worse than Clickbait headlines: They are a new type of phishing attack, first studied by CISPA researcher and PhD candidate Giada Stivala and her colleagues. Clickbait PDF files do not contain any malware per se – instead, they try to coax users into clicking somewhere in the file, leading them to malicious web pages that could potentially steal their data. https://cispa.de/ClickbaitPDFs cispa_news_1412 en 185 1708038000 Millions of users use browser extensions on a daily basis, for example, to block advertisements on websites. But is the use of extensions from third-party providers secure at all? CISPA Faculty Dr. Aurore Fass has examined this question based on extensions for Chrome, thus providing the first large study on the Chrome Web Store. https://cispa.de/en/fass_chromewebstore cispa_news_1422 en 185 1707951600 Clickbait PDFs are even worse than Clickbait headlines: they are a new type of phishing attack, first studied by CISPA researcher and PHD candidate Giada Stivala and her colleagues. These PDF files don’t contain any malware per se – instead they try to coax users into clicking somewhere in the file, thus leading to malicious web pages that could potentially steal their data. In th https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode29-stivla cispa_news_1419 en 185 1707865200 This episode will change your life! As if Clickbait headlines weren’t bad enough: now there’s something even worse lurking on the internet: Clickbait PDFs. Giada Stivala, PhD candidate and CISPA researcher, has discovered this new type of phishing attack, in which scammers are desperately trying to steal your click (and ultimately your data and/or money). Giada tells us how she sc https://cispa.de/en/tldr-clickbaitPDFs cispa_news_1414 en 185 1707433200 On days 3 and 4 at CCS in Copenhagen, Sven Bugiel and Ben Stock show us how previously ownerless papers get to reviewers. Sahar Abdelnabi wins a prize for revealing how insecure chatbots like ChatGPT are, and we look forward to going home after the conference hustle and bustle. This is the final part of our travel diary from the CCS. https://cispa.de/en/ccs-day3 cispa_news_1401 en 185 1707174000 The startup QuantPi, supported by CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, has received 2.5 million euros in funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC). This makes QuantPi the second company in the CISPA startup community to receive one of the coveted EU grants. https://cispa.de/en/eic-quantpi cispa_news_1392 en 185 1706828400 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. Ali Abbasi takes us on a little space adventure and Cas Cremers reflects on the power of his words. https://cispa.de/en/ccs-day2 cispa_news_1390 en 185 1706742000 22 startups, 6 jokers - a game for young and old. To bring the community together, raise awareness about startups and celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit, the Startups & Entrepreneurship department created a quartet card game. Because one thing is for sure: fun and knowledge sharing can go hand in hand. https://cispa.de/en/startup-quartett cispa_news_1375 en 185 1706482800 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. For example, when a VPN connection is used in addition to the Tor anonymity network. It is often unclear where the information comes from that a certain mechanism is useful and actually offers more security. Matthias Fassl, from the team of CISPA faculty member Dr. Katharina Krombholz, has investigated how often users choose this combination and what they expect from it. The results have been published in the paper "Investigating Security Folklore: A Case Study on the Tor over VPN Phenomenon", which received an Honorable Mention Award and a Methods Recognition at the CSCW 2023 conference. https://cispa.de/en/fassl-torovervpn cispa_news_1376 en 185 1706223600 After gaining our first insights into conference business at the USENIX Security Symposium in California in August, the next top conference on the agenda was CCS in Copenhagen in November 2023. This short travel diary captures what we, the CISPA Corporate Communications team, experienced there. https://cispa.de/en/ccs-day1 cispa_news_1380 en 185 1706050800 The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named CISPA founding director Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Backes ACM Fellow. This honor is bestowed on select ACM Members who have distinguished themselves through outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology. https://cispa.de/en/backes-acm-fellow cispa_news_1361 en 185 1704841200 A new episode of our CISPA-TL;DR podcast is online! It is again part of our #WomenInCybersecurity series. We talk to Dr. Christine Utz about cybersecurity and data protection. The CISPA researcher has had a remarkable interdisciplinary study career with degrees in law and information security. She tells us what fascinates her about interdisciplinarity, what research topics she is currently working on and what methods she is using to find the answers she is looking for. The interview was conducted in German and is now online wherever podcasts are available. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode27-utz cispa_news_1365 en 185 1704841200 This episode of our CISPA-TL;DR podcast is again part of our #WomenInCybersecurity series. We talk to Dr. Christine Utz about cybersecurity and data protection. The CISPA researcher has had a remarkable interdisciplinary study career with degrees in law and information security. She tells us what fascinates her about interdisciplinarity, what research topics she is currently working on and what methods she is using to find the answers she is looking for. The interview was conducted in German and is now online wherever podcasts are available. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-utz cispa_news_1457 en 185 1704841200 This episode of our CISPA-TL;DR podcast is again part of our #WomenInCybersecurity series. We talk to Dr. Christine Utz about cybersecurity and data protection. The CISPA researcher has had a remarkable interdisciplinary study career with degrees in law and information security. She tells us what fascinates her about interdisciplinarity, what research topics she is currently working on and what methods she is using to find the answers she is looking for. The interview was conducted in German and is now online wherever podcasts are available. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/insights/Podcast_WomenInCybersecurity/podcast/2024/01_12_utz cispa_news_1371 en 185 1704668400 Michael Schwarz has been researching side-channel attacks in microarchitectures and system security at CISPA since 2020. He was part of a research team that discovered the Meltdown, Spectre, Fallout, LVI and ZombieLoad vulnerabilities in processors in the past. Since January 1, 2024, he is now "tenured", i.e., Faculty for life - if he wants to be. https://cispa.de/en/schwarz-tenured cispa_news_1356 en 185 1704236400 In its first year, the network of excellence ELSA - European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI has set an important course to make the European Union a beacon of secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence. https://cispa.de/en/one-year-elsa cispa_news_1359 en 185 1704236400 Online stores, social media, online banking - internet users need passwords everywhere. Password managers can help. However, the added security they provide is often not fully realized in practice, as setting up the tools correctly is often cumbersome and time-consuming. This is shown by a qualitative study by CISPA researcher Sabrina Amft. https://cispa.de/en/passwordmanager cispa_news_1354 en 185 1703026800 A new episode of our CISPA-TL;DR Podcast is online! For episode 27 we venture into the great unknown that is space! Though it's not all that unknown anymore, as CISPA-Faculty Dr. Ali Abbasi tells us, with a 'New Space Era' just around the corner. 40,000 satellites will orbit our home planet by 2030, with most of them not paying too much attention to cybersecurity. Listen what Abbasi has to say about the risks we face and what the future holds for his research. The interview was conducted in English and can be found wherever podcasts are available. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode27-satellitesecurity cispa_news_1352 en 185 1703026800 Ground Control to CISPA TL;DR ... For this new episode of our CISPA-TL;DR Podcast we venture into the great unknown that is space! Though it's not all that unknown anymore, as CISPA Faculty Dr. Ali Abbasi tells us, with a 'New Space Era' just around the corner. 40.000 satellites will orbit our home planet by 2030, with most of them not paying too much attention to cybersecurity. Sounds like a job for CISPA! Listen as Abbasi tells us what risks we face and what the future will hold in store for his research. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-satellitesecurity cispa_news_1343 en 185 1702594800 For a machine learning algorithm to be trustworthy, the end user needs to know how confident the model is for every single prediction. To date, accuracy has been a major criterion for the evaluation of a model. However, this does not reflect on how confident the model is in processing each input. Scientists have devised methods to quantify the “uncertainty” but most of these methods are computationally expensive. The task becomes even more challenging when inputs are given in the form of a network with meaningful connections such as happens, for example, in drug discovery, medical diagnosis, or traffic forecast. At the same time, these meaningful connections in data can be used to arrive at a better understanding of the uncertainty. In their recent paper “Conformal Prediction Sets for Graph Neural Networks”, CISPA researcher Soroush H. Zargarbashi and his colleagues have successfully tested a new method to define a set of possible predictions for these networks that is guaranteed to include the true prediction. https://cispa.de/en/Zargarbashi_uncertaintyquantification cispa_news_1346 en 185 1702594800 Scientific event in July for phD students and graduate students takes place in Saarbruecken from July 22 - 26, 2024. https://cispa.de/summer-school-usable cispa_news_1347 en 185 1702594800 Our second scientific event in 2024: Summer School on Cryptography is taking place in Saarbruecken July 29-31, 2024 https://cispa.de/summer-school-crypto cispa_news_1335 en 185 1702335600 Technology transfer at CISPA has climbed to new heights in 2023, with a record number of startup being funded and innovative programs to promote structural change in Saarland. https://cispa.de/en/techtransfer2023 cispa_news_1332 en 185 1702249200 Dr. Franziska Boenisch's mission is to design machine learning in a way that benefits society while also protecting privacy. In doing so, the new CISPA Faculty is tackling one of the greatest technical challenges of our time. In an interview, Boenisch told us what led her to join CISPA, what her work focuses on and what challenges she sees. https://cispa.de/en/newfaculty_franziskaboenisch cispa_news_1337 en 185 1701903600 'AirTags' are small location trackers for finding misplaced wallets or keys and are currently selling like hot cakes. As practical as they are, AirTags are also a useful tool for stalkers. According to CISPA researcher Dañiel Gerhardt, functions built into the trackers to prevent this are not yet as good as they could be. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode-26-airtags cispa_news_1339 en 185 1701903600 The 26th episode of CISPA TL;DR is online! https://cispa.de/en/tldr-airtags cispa_news_1331 en 185 1701730800 CISPA Corporate Communications is celebrating an outstanding success: on Thursday, November 30, the department was awarded the Saarland State Prize for Design. A renowned jury recognized the projects named "CISPA Research Paper Graphics", "CISPA Zine" and "Podcast CISPA TL;DR", which together received the state prize under the title "CISPA - Science Communication". The winning tea https://cispa.de/en/state-prize cispa_news_1322 en 185 1700002800 Developed by top experts in the field of machine learning, the research agenda published today outlines how ELSA will be tackling the major challenges of secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence. https://cispa.de/en/elsa-sra cispa_news_1318 en 185 1699916400 So-called Secure Encrypted Virtualization was developed by AMD with the primary goal of making its cloud services more secure. But even the latest versions of the security feature were vulnerable to a software-based attack until recently. This was discovered by Ruiyi Zhang, who works in the team of CISPA- Faculty Dr. Michael Schwarz. https://cispa.de/en/cachewarp cispa_news_1323 en 185 1699916400 Lujo will give a talk on "From pandas and gibbons to malware detection: Attacking and defending real-world uses of machine learning on", Thursday, 16th of November, at 4pm CET https://cispa.de/en/dls-bauer cispa_news_1314 en 185 1699570800 In the past year, AI image generators have experienced unprecedented popularity. With just a few clicks, all kinds of images can be created: even dehumanizing imagery and hate memes can be included. CISPA researcher Yiting Qu from the team of CISPA Faculty Dr. Yang Zhang has now investigated the proportion of these images among the most popular AI image generators and how their creation can be prevented with effective filters. Her paper “Unsafe Diffusion: On the Generation of Unsafe Images and Hateful Memes From Text-To-Image Models” will be presented soon at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. https://cispa.de/en/yitingqu-unsafeimages cispa_news_1316 en 185 1699311600 A digital expert and publicist, Thomas Sattelberger has a particular interest in questions of innovation, transformation and research. At the research festival "CISPA loves IGB" in September 2023, he spoke about the potential for innovation and transformation in Germany. In this interview, he explains what role CISPA has to play in this. https://cispa.de/en/sattelberger cispa_news_1310 en 185 1699225200 Today, a workshop kicking off the cooperation between CISPA and Inria, the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, has taken place in the futuristic office towers of Campus Cyber in Paris. In July this year, CISPA and Inria formalized their cooperation in a Memorandum of Understanding. The kick-off workshop now marks the beginning of the work phase. CISPA is further expanding its research cooperation with France and helping to strengthen cross-border collaboration. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-inria-workshop-paris2023 cispa_news_1308 en 185 1698879600 Dr. Rebekka Burkholz and Dr. Julian Loss seem to have liked it on our podcast – they both are returning for their second episode of TL;DR! The two CISPA Faculty are working on completely different things, but they both have been awarded with a prestigious research grant by the European Research Council (ERC) this fall: the ERC Starting Grant. We talk about what it means for them to receive this grant, what their research has in common and how to facilitate interdisciplinary research. Now available at all your favorite podcast platforms! https://cispa.de/en/tldr-ercgrants-burkholzloss cispa_news_1304 en 185 1698620400 The former CISPA researcher was awarded by Saarland University for her outstanding dissertation on "Logical methods for the hierarchy of hyperlogics". https://cispa.de/en/eduard-martin-prize cispa_news_1299 en 185 1698012000 CISPA Faculty Dr. Katharina Krombholz and Professor Dr. Andreas Zeller, along with CISPA PostDoc Dr. Dominic Steinhöfel, have received the Busy-Beaver-Award for their outstanding teaching performance in the previous summer term. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/news-archive/articles/2023/10_23_busy_beaver_krombholz_zeller cispa_news_1296 en 185 1697666400 Alexander Dax recently received two Distinguished Paper Awards for research papers he has worked on. One of the two coveted awards in the research community honored him for his paper "Hash gone bad: Automated discovery of protocol attacks that exploit hash function weaknesses". https://cispa.de/en/hash cispa_news_1294 en 185 1697580000 With "Deceptive Security", CISPA is publishing its first scrollytelling narrative in science transfer. Pivoting on the research of CISPA-Faculty Professor Dr. Cas Cremers, "Deceptive Security" is an engaging narrative that charts the development of the „Tamarin Prover“, a software for the formal verification of security protocols. https://cispa.de/en/scrollytelling cispa_news_1291 en 185 1697148000 For the past two years, Dr. Aurore Fass had been working as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the CISPA-Stanford Center for Cybersecurity in the US, a joint center for cybersecurity research by CISPA and Stanford University. She joined the tenure-track program at CISPA on September 1. Her research concentrates on security vulnerabilities in the JavaScript programming language. In this interview, she tells us what exactly interests her and what her research foci are. https://cispa.de/en/newfaculty_aurorefass cispa_news_1289 en 185 1697061600 The CISPA-supported startup LUBIS EDA will receive 2.5 million euros in funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC) starting in 2024. This makes it the first company in the CISPA ecosystem to receive one of the coveted EU grants. The EIC fund is considered the largest deep-tech investor in Europe in terms of investment volume. https://cispa.de/en/eic-lubis cispa_news_1282 en 185 1696802400 A current study of IHK Saarland, the region's Chamber of Industry and Commerce, regards CISPA as an important pillar of the Saarland business location. The study anticipates that by 2023, CISPA will generate effects for the regional economy of up to 270 million euros annually. CISPA startups and spin-offs are expected to have great potential. https://cispa.de/en/ihk-study cispa_news_1276 en 185 1696543200 Few people realize that authenticating chat partners is crucial to prevent attacks on the messaging process. In a self experiment, CISPA researcher Matthias Fassl examined why people rarely take these extra steps. The results have now been published as a paper at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://cispa.de/en/fassl_authenticationceremonies cispa_news_1268 en 185 1696197600 Professor Lejla Batina (Radboud University) will give a talk on “Beyond Physical: Revisiting the Interplay of Side-channel analysis and AI”, Thursday, 12th of October, at 10 am. https://cispa.de/dls-batina cispa_news_1274 en 185 1695938400 The European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI (ELSA), a recently established AI network of excellence consisting of top European researchers, met in Sestri Levante for the first General Assembly Meeting for three days from September 25-27. The large and growing network aims to promote the development and deployment of cutting-edge AI solutions in the future and to make Europe a beacon of trustworthy AI. 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. https://cispa.de/en/elsaGAM2023 cispa_news_1266 en 185 1695765600 For one week, we from CISPA'S Corporate Communications department traveled to Anaheim, California. Not to take a vacation, but to accompany our researchers to two important cybersecurity conferences. Read about our experiences there and what we learned about the workings of the research community in our feature story. https://cispa.de/en/usenix-2023 cispa_news_1265 en 185 1695333600 The 24th episode of our CISPA podcast TL;DR is online! It's about MobileAtlas, an infrastructure for mobile tests across Europe. It was developed by our CISPA researcher Adrian Dabrowski, together with Gabriel Gegenhuber from the University of Vienna and colleagues from SBA Research. https://cispa.de/podcast-mobile-communications-security cispa_news_1263 en 185 1695333600 In the 24th episode of CISPA TL;DR, CISPA researcher Dr. Adrian Dabrowski talks about "MobileAtlas", a mobile testing infrastructure he developed together with Gabriel Gegenhuber from the University of Vienna and colleagues from SBA Research. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-mobilfunksicherheit cispa_news_1260 en 185 1695247200 On Pitch Day #1, seven startups from the CISPA Incubator applied for initial funding from the CISPA Venture Capital Fund. In our interview, Dr. Peter Memminger, Managing Director of Sustainable & Invest GmbH, and Max Wolf, Head of Startups & Entrepreneurship at CISPA, explain why it is so important to invest in cybersecurity right now. https://cispa.de/en/interview-vc-fonds cispa_news_1252 en 185 1695160800 Celebrating and researching together was the motto of "CISPA❤️IGB", the event at which CISPA presented itself to the public. On September 16, thousands of visitors accepted the invitation to St. Ingbert to experience the diversity of our research in cyber security and artificial intelligence (AI) first hand. https://cispa.de/en/CISPAlovesIGBreportage cispa_news_1248 en 185 1694988000 With the research festival "CISPA❤️IGB", the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security presented itself to the interested public. Last Saturday, 5,000 citizens accepted the invitation to the Industriekathedrale Alte Schmelz in St. Ingbert and experienced current research topics in cyber security and artificial intelligence first hand. https://cispa.de/en/EventCISPAlovesIGB cispa_news_1246 en 185 1694728800 CISPA, together with the investment company Sustainable & Invest GmbH, is launching the CISPA Venture Capital Fund today. On “Pitch Day #1”, selected startups are presenting themselves to the jury today, applying for initial funding. The CISPA Venture Capital Fund invests in startups in the fields of IT security and artificial intelligence. https://cispa.de/en/vcfonds-pitchday cispa_news_1209 en 185 1694124000 The omnipresence of images on the internet on the one hand and the exponential learning curve of AI image generators on the other heighten the risk of image manipulations with malicious intent. CISPA researcher Zheng Li and his colleagues have tested a technique that can partially prevent this. The results of their research have been published in the paper “UnGANable: Defending Against GAN-based Face Manipulation” at the renowned “USENIX Security” conference. https://cispa.de/en/zhengli-unganable cispa_news_1205 en 185 1693864800 In his Cryptosystems project, CISPA-Faculty Dr. Julian Loss intends to use state-of-the-art cryptographic methods to improve the efficiency and robustness of distributed algorithms and thus make the networks of the future more secure and efficient. For this endeavour, he receives a Starting Grant from the ERC which amounts to 1.4 million euros. https://cispa.de/en/erc-loss cispa_news_1208 en 185 1693864800 Rebekka Burkholz wants to democratize machine learning. Her starting point: Making artificial neural networks smaller and at the same time more efficient. The European Research Council (ERC) is now funding her research project, called SPARSE-ML, for five years with an ERC Starting Grant totaling 1.5 million euros. https://cispa.de/en/erc-burkholz cispa_news_1203 en 185 1693346400 Dr. Krikamol Muandet became CISPA faculty in 2022. Now, his research group, which focuses on the theoretical foundations of machine learning, has chosen a name for itself: "Rational Intelligence Lab." Krikamol and his colleagues have summarized the vision for their group's work in a piece of writing entitled the "Rational Intelligence Manifesto". https://cispa.de/en/RationalIntelligenceManifesto cispa_news_1199 en 185 1693260000 CySec4Psych: This is the name of an EU-funded project that aims to shed light on and strengthen the role of cybersecurity in modern industrial and organizational psychology. Funded by Erasmus+, CySec4Psych is a cooperation between Saarland University, Tallinna Tehnikaulikool, Leiden University and CISPA. https://cispa.de/en/cysec4psych-interview cispa_news_1201 en 185 1692741600 Quality in science is measured, among other things, by whether studies can be reproduced by other scientists and still yield the same result. This, however, is a major challenge, especially for studies on web security mechanisms. Websites, which provide the underlying data, are after all constantly changing entities. CISPA researcher Florian Hantke and his colleagues from the team of CISPA Faculty Dr. Ben Stock, in cooperation with researchers from Ca' Foscari University in Venice, have taken a new approach to tackle this problem: Using web archives instead of live analyses for these studies, they have achieved promising results. https://cispa.de/en/hantkeinternetarchive cispa_news_1183 en 185 1692568800 On September 16, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security hosts the public event "CISPA❤️IGB" at the Alte Schmelz in St. Ingbert. Bringing together lectures, concerts and hands-on activities, the event program promises an exciting day out for the entire family. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/news-archive/articles/2023/08_21_cispasanktingbert-programm cispa_news_1143 en 185 1692309600 One of CISPA's main goals is to attract top researchers from all over the world to Saarland. In order for this to work, they need not only first-class research conditions and outstanding science support, but also support in settling in in their new home in Saarland. CISPA has its own department dedicated to this: the Onboarding Team. 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. https://cispa.de/en/onboarding-at-cispa cispa_news_1179 en 185 1692136800 With the introduction of chatbots such as ChatGPT and BingChat, large language models (LLM) have entered the everyday life of internet users. However, chatbots come with potential security problems and therefore should be treated with caution. This has been demonstrated repeatedly in recent months by a project involving the CISPA researchers Professor Dr. Mario Fritz, Professor Dr https://cispa.de/en/cooperation-cispa-sequire cispa_news_1182 en 185 1691964000 At the public event “CISPA❤️St. Ingbert” on September 16, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security will introduce itself to the citizens of St. Ingbert. On this occasion, CISPA and the city of St. Ingbert will also present their common plans for the future. https://cispa.de/en/loves-st-ingbert cispa_news_1176 en 185 1691532000 "As a cellular network researcher, you are in some ways a prisoner of your geographic position," says CISPA researcher Dr. Adrian Dabrowski. What he is referring to is that, because of the large number of providers and networks, cellular network researchers have so far only been able to carry out tests. https://cispa.de/mobile-communications-security cispa_news_1178 en 185 1691532000 In this episode of TL;DR, CISPA-Faculty Dr. Ben Stock tells us all about how secure E-Mails really are, why you should always double check who the sender of a suspicious E-Mail really is and what the future might hold in store for the E-Mail standard. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-stock cispa_news_1186 en 185 1691272800 The prestigious USENIX Security 2023 conference in Anaheim, California was very successful for CISPA. CISPA-Faculty Dr. Ben Stock has co-authored a paper on E-Mail Security that was presented there, along with 29 other papers with CISPA involvement. In this episode he tells us all about how secure E-Mails really are, why you should always double check who the sender of a suspiciou https://cispa.de/en/tldrpodcast-stock cispa_news_1173 en 185 1691100000 From August 9-11, 2023, the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium will be held in Anaheim, California. This year, CISPA will once again have a particularly prominent presence there. The symposium is one of the world's most important conferences for data and web security research. https://cispa.de/en/usenix23 cispa_news_1162 en 185 1690840800 CISPA Faculty Dr. Michael Schwarz has been researching side-channel attacks for years. He was involved, among other things, in the discovery of Platypus and Meltdown. These are cyberattacks in which data is stolen via a detour, the so-called side-channel. Side-channel attacks exploit information that the Central Processing Unit (CPU) reveals involuntarily during processing, such as runtime behavior or power consumption. With Collide+Power, Michael Schwarz, his PhD student Lukas Gerlach, and a group of researchers at TU Graz, have now discovered a new power side-channel attack that directly targets the CPU and that can theoretically hit all processors. https://cispa.de/en/collideandpower cispa_news_1119 en 185 1690754400 Increased awareness in society about information security is important for coping with the challenges of the digital world. For this reason, knowledge transfer and science communication are main pillars of the work at CISPA. One of our departments that has taken up these issues is the Science Outreach team, whose work we present in the fifth issue of the CISPA zine. https://cispa.de/en/zine5_scienceoutreach cispa_news_1153 en 185 1690408800 In their paper “Space Odyssey: An Experimental Software Security Analysis of Satellites”, CISPA Faculty Ali Abbasi and Thorsten Holz, along with researchers from Ruhr University Bochum, investigate the security issues that accompany the dawning of the “New Space Era”. https://cispa.de/en/satellite-security cispa_news_1116 en 185 1690149600 Explaining his complex research in just one sentence, comprehensible to everyone, is a challenge that CISPA-Faculty Professor Dr. Andreas Zeller is always happy to take on. Science communication is a "hobbyhorse” trotting along his great passion and profession: making software better and more secure. In the interview for the fifth edition of our CISPA-Zine, Zeller tells us why comprehensibility matters to him as a researcher. https://cispa.de/en/zeller cispa_news_1152 en 185 1689890400 The ICML, short for International Conference on Machine Learning, is one of the international top conferences in the field of machine learning. Many CISPA researchers have contributed to papers that succeeded in convincing the conference jury. From July 23 to 29, they will present their research in Hawaii. https://cispa.de/en/ICML cispa_news_1146 en 185 1689544800 Dr. Siegfried Dais is a new member of the supervisory board of the CISPA Helmholtz Centre for Information Security. He was deputy chairman of Robert Bosch GmbH, where he was responsible, among other things, for the central divisions of research, advance development and IT. In the interview, he tells us why cybersecurity fascinates him. https://cispa.de/en/interview-dais cispa_news_1149 en 185 1689199200 In 2022, more than 1.14 billion websites were online worldwide. Many of these are hosted in the European Union (EU) or are frequented by people from the EU. Since 2018, the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to these websites. It obliges businesses and website operators to ensure the protection of their customers’ and users’ personal data. Together with her colleagues, CISPA researcher Christine Utz has now investigated how website operators can be alerted to an inadequate implementation of the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive on their sites. They have published their findings in a paper entitled "Comparing Large-Scale Privacy and Security Notifications". https://cispa.de/en/utz-gdpr cispa_news_1118 en 185 1689026400 A year after the publication of our first CISPA Zine, we are now presenting Zine No. 5. This current issue is entirely dedicated to the topic of knowledge transfer. At the heart of No. 5 is a detailed introduction to the activities at the CISPA Cysec Lab. In the interview, CISPA-Faculty Professor Dr. Andreas Zeller tells us about his approach to science communication. There is also an update on the developments at the center as well as the latest facts and figures. https://cispa.de/en/zine5 cispa_news_1132 en 185 1688680800 Supported by CISPA, the MIT Club of Germany hosted the regional conference "Schule MIT Wissenschaft" in Saarbruecken last weekend. Modeled after the Science and Engineering Program for Teachers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), this teacher training event is aimed at STEM teachers. 90 teachers from Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Ba https://cispa.de/en/schule-mit-wissenschaft cispa_news_1139 en 185 1688594400 With her knowledge, Beth Susanne, one of the world’s leading Pitch Coach originally from Silicon Valley, has helped more than 3,750 startups around the world raise an average of four million and a total of ten billion euros in funding. Now our incubator startups, CISPA faculty as well as PhDs had the opportunity to learn from her how to pitch the importance of their research findings and technologies to investors, customers or potential partners. We talked with her about how to communicate Complex Research and Technology. https://cispa.de/en/interview-bethsusanne cispa_news_1137 en 185 1688508000 A new episode of our CISPA-TL;DR podcast is online! Episode 22 is part of our special series #WomenInCybersecurity. In this episode, we discuss the security of large language models such as ChatGPT with CISPA Faculty Dr. Lea Schönherr. Lea tells us how she goes about uncovering vulnerabilities in these models. As somebody trained in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, she also reveals what it is like to work among computer scientists. This episode was recorded in German and is now available wherever you get your podcasts. https://cispa.de/en/episode-22-tldr cispa_news_1136 en 185 1688508000 Episode 22 is part of our special series #WomenInCybersecurity. In this episode, we discuss the security of large language models such as ChatGPT with CISPA Faculty Dr. Lea Schönherr. Lea tells us how she goes about uncovering vulnerabilities in these models. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-schoenherr cispa_news_1447 en 185 1688508000 Episode 22 is part of our special series #WomenInCybersecurity. In this episode, we discuss the security of large language models such as ChatGPT with CISPA Faculty Dr. Lea Schönherr. Lea tells us how she goes about uncovering vulnerabilities in these models. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/insights/Podcast_WomenInCybersecurity/podcast/2023/23-07-05-schoenherr cispa_news_1133 en 185 1688421600 A short interview on the new German National Security Strategy https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/news-archive/articles/2023/07_04_drei_Fragen_Holz cispa_news_1121 en 185 1688335200 With a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), CISPA further expands its research cooperation with France. Joint research efforts in the field of cybersecurity are at the heart of the cooperation. The MoU was signed by CISPA founding director and CEO, Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Backes, CISPA Executive Director Kevin Streit and Inria CEO and Chairman Dr. Bruno Sportisse. https://cispa.de/en/new-cooperation_inria cispa_news_1127 en 185 1688076000 Until a few years ago, only particularly tech-savvy and venturesome speculators invested in Bitcoin and the like, but cryptocurrencies are now slowly becoming a new asset class on conventional financial markets. To trade cryptocurrencies securely, owners require cryptographic keys which they need to keep secret. https://cispa.de/en/key-management cispa_news_1125 en 185 1687989600 Dr. Siegfried Dais has been appointed to the supervisory board of the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. The internationally renowned manager will attend his first supervisory board meeting in Saarbruecken on June 29, 2023. https://cispa.de/en/dais-supervisory-board cispa_news_1123 en 185 1687903200 Professor Nathan Kallus (Cornell University) will give a talk on "Smooth Contextual Bandits", Tuesday, 4th of July, at 10am. https://cispa.de/dls-kallus cispa_news_1115 en 185 1687471200 Differential Privacy is considered a gamechanger for privacy protection in data analysis. The technique has been in use for a number of years. For example, the U.S. Census Bureau used Differential Privacy (DP) to conduct the last census data publication in the U.S. in 2020. https://cispa.de/en/differential-privacy cispa_news_1107 en 185 1686088800 Episode 21 of CISPA TL;DR now online https://cispa.de/en/episode-21-tldr cispa_news_1106 en 185 1686088800 Episode 20 of CISPA TL;DR now online https://cispa.de/en/tldr-christoph-lenzen cispa_news_1094 en 185 1685570400 Humanitarian aid programs are deployed in difficult, sometimes even hostile environments where adequate digital infrastructure is usually lacking. And aid recipients often have little agency protecting their interests in the process of obtaining humanitarian aid. This urgently calls for the development of scalable solutions for aid distributions that do no harm. In collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross, CISPA-Faculty Dr. Wouter Lueks and his colleagues from EPFL in Lausanne have developed a new privacy-friendly solution for large-scale humanitarian-aid distribution. His paper has recently been published at the prestigious 44rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, where it was honored with a Distinguished Paper Award. https://cispa.de/en/lueks-humanitarianaid cispa_news_1104 en 185 1685570400 From March 23 to 25, experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning from across Europe met in Helsinki to discuss pressing privacy issues in the use of AI applications. https://cispa.de/en/elsa-workshop-helsinki cispa_news_1098 en 185 1684792800 In the year of the 60th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, CISPA and its French partner institute Loria in Nancy got together to celebrate the Franco-German friendship on May 25. The two institutes have been collaborating in the virtual "French-German Center for Cybersecurity (FGCC)” since 2020. This cooperation has been strengthened further in a Memorandum of Understanding. https://cispa.de/en/fgcc_may_2023 cispa_news_1091 en 185 1684101600 CISPA Faculty Andreas Zeller has received another Most Influential Paper Award at the MSR conference in Melbourne. https://cispa.de/en/mip-award-zeller cispa_news_1084 en 185 1683496800 Episode 20 of CISPA TL;DR now online https://cispa.de/en/episode-20-tldr cispa_news_1081 en 185 1683237600 The European Research Council (ERC) is supporting Lenzen with a Proof of Concept Grant of 150,000 euros to bring his groundbreaking research to application. https://cispa.de/en/erc-grant-lenzen cispa_news_1073 en 185 1683151200 A successfully defended doctoral dissertation is the foundation of an academic career. CISPA-researcher Sebastian Roth mastered this step and has already begun working on his Post-Doc project in Vienna. In the interview, he tells us about his time as a PhD student in the team of CISPA-Faculty Dr. Ben Stock, the support he received and his research interests. https://cispa.de/en/interview_phd_sebastianroth cispa_news_1079 en 185 1683151200 Episode 20 of CISPA TL;DR now online https://cispa.de/en/TLDR-passwordmanager cispa_news_1076 en 185 1682978400 In the recent hiring season, CISPA has once again managed to attract an outstanding group of researchers. The five new researchers are coming from prestigious international research institutions to join the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarland, Germany. This brings the total number of CISPA Faculty up to 39. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/news-archive/articles/2023/new_faculty_1_2023 cispa_news_1070 en 185 1682546400 On today's Girls' and Boys' Day, CISPA invited young people from the Saarland to explore future-oriented professions. This nationwide orientation day offers teenagers the opportunity to get to know professions beyond gender stereotypes and traditional role models. https://cispa.de/en/girls-and-boys-day-2023 cispa_news_1066 en 185 1682028000 CISPA Faculty Dr Mridula Singh has received the Busy-Beaver-Award for her outstanding teaching performance in the previous winter term. Twice a year, the Computer Science Students’ Council at Saarland University honors lecturers who have shown a special commitment to teaching. https://cispa.de/en/busy-beaver-singh cispa_news_1065 en 185 1681768800 A new specification language called ISLa is set to enhance automated software testing or fuzzing. ISLa might also become a milestone in the field of software security and reliability. In his paper entitled „Input Variants“, CISPA-researcher Dr. Dominic Steinhöfel has described his recent work. https://cispa.de/en/input-invariants cispa_news_1063 en 185 1681768800 Barton Miller will give a talk on "Random Testing with ‘Fuzz’: 30 Years of Finding Bugs", Tuesday, 9th of May, at 10am. https://cispa.de/dls-miller cispa_news_1062 en 185 1681423200 After successfully completing the tenure track program, senior researchers Dr Giancarlo Pellegrino and Dr Yang Zhang have been appointed tenured Faculty at CISPA. https://cispa.de/en/new_tenured_faculty_pellegrino-zhang cispa_news_1055 en 185 1681164000 2-factor authentication has become the standard for logging into many web services. While many users use a combination of password and cell phone codes, the FIDO2 standard is considered to be the most secure variant, but requires an additional hardware component. CISPA researcher Fabian Schwarz and his colleagues from the teams of CISPA Faculty Dr. Christian Rossow and CISPA Facul https://cispa.de/en/FeIDo-prototype-2-factor-authentication cispa_news_1047 en 185 1680645600 Leon Trampert and Lorenz Hetterich both graduated with a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity from Saarland University and were recently awarded the CAST advancement award IT security for their outstanding work. https://cispa.de/en/phd-students cispa_news_1051 en 185 1680472800 CISPA Faculty Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller has done it again – he receives a second ERC Advanced grant worth 2.5 million euros! In this episode, he tells us about his vision to make every piece of software in the world automatically testable, how he managed to convince the European https://cispa.de/en/episode-19-tldr cispa_news_1050 en 185 1680472800 CISPA Faculty Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller has done it again – he receives a second ERC Advanced grant worth 2.5 million euros! In this episode, he tells us about his vision to make every piece of software in the world automatically testable, how he managed to convince the European https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode-19 cispa_news_1049 en 185 1680127200 CISPA Faculty Andreas Zeller's vision is to make every piece of software in the world automatically testable. The European Research Council (ERC) has placed its full confidence in Zeller and is funding his project "S3 - Semantics of Software Systems" for the next five years with an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros. https://cispa.de/en/erc-grant-andreas-zeller cispa_news_1026 en 185 1679007600 Ilya Sergey will give a talk on "Deductive Synthesis of Programs with Pointers: Expressive, Trustworthy, Fast", Friday, 17th of March, at 10am https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-events/distinguished-lecture-series/lectures/sergey cispa_news_1032 en 185 1678402800 The goal of a student internship is to gain insight into the real world of work. The work of student Max Müller in the research group of CISPA Faculty Dr. Michael Schwarz shows that not only students may profit from that, but also researchers. https://cispa.de/en/an-unwinnable-game cispa_news_1022 en 185 1677711600 Privacy-Friendly Technological Solutions with Dr. Wouter Lueks. https://cispa.de/en/episode-18-TLDR cispa_news_1023 en 185 1677711600 Episode 18 of CISPA TL;DR is online https://cispa.de/en/TLDR-wouter-lueks cispa_news_1014 en 185 1677193200 CISPA Faculty Dr. Lea Schönherr's research focuses on different types of attacks on machine learning models. In order to uncover vulnerabilities in the models and build them more securely in the future, the researcher puts herself in the shoes of attackers and tries everything to outsmart artificial intelligence https://cispa.de/en/know-your-enemy cispa_news_1002 en 185 1676415600 In the ImageTox project, the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security are pooling their expertise in the fields of drug discovery and artificial intelligence (AI). https://cispa.de/en/imagetox cispa_news_999 en 185 1675983600 Visual digital certificates could be a secure and privacy-friendly approach to making official documents such as driver's licenses available digitally, says CISPA researcher Dañiel Gerhardt. "But only if they are properly verified for accuracy." https://cispa.de/en/certificates cispa_news_1004 en 185 1675724400 Scientific Summer School in System Security for Bachelor/Master students and phD students. https://cispa.de/summer-school-2023 cispa_news_997 en 185 1675292400 Health data such as blood counts, genetic information or MRI findings of study participants play a crucial role in the development of modern drugs and treatment methods. At the same time, however, this data is also highly sensitive. They therefore enjoy special protection and their use and disclosure must be strictly limited and controlled. https://cispa.de/en/prisyn-project cispa_news_995 en 185 1675206000 Episode 17 of CISPA TL;DR is online. https://cispa.de/en/Episode-17-TLDR cispa_news_996 en 185 1675206000 Episode 17 of CISPA TL;DR is online https://cispa.de/cispa-in-hanover cispa_news_988 en 185 1673823600 In his paper "Automatic Detection of Speculative Execution Combinations," PhD student and CISPA researcher Xaver Fabian presents a new approach that automates the detection of vulnerabilities in processors - even if they only emerge through the combination of several speculative mechanisms. https://cispa.de/en/pure-speculation cispa_news_979 en 185 1672873200 Episode 16 of CISPA's TL;DR podcast is out now. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/news-archive/articles/2023/podcast-wermke cispa_news_974 en 185 1672873200 Episode 16 of CISPA's TL;DR podcast is out now. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/insights/podcast/podcast/2023/wermke cispa_news_967 en 185 1672614000 “We make sure that the excellent research at CISPA is translated into application,” says Max Wolf. He is part of CISPA’s Tech Transfer team and heads the Startups and Entrepreneurship department. He knows the challenges of young founders very well. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-tech-transfer cispa_news_965 en 185 1671663600 As a lecturer, CISPA faculty Dr. -Ing. Ben Stock regularly teaches students at Saarland University the foundations of cyber and web security. As a course advisor for the bachelor's degree program in ... https://cispa.de/en/ben-stock-interview cispa_news_969 en 185 1671577200 The fact that computer programs can solve certain tasks is only one half of the equation. It is just as important that they also have the properties desired by the software developers, such as security or robustness. The practical check of programs is only the second step. https://cispa.de/en/putting-software-on-the-test-bench cispa_news_960 en 185 1670972400 "Although the web attack technique DOM Clobbering has been known since 2010, it has received far too little attention," says CISPA researcher Soheil Khodayari. https://cispa.de/en/under-the-radar cispa_news_959 en 185 1670799600 At a joint event on November 30th, 2022, CISPA researchers and Airbus experts provided exciting insights into research at CISPA and the work of one of the largest aerospace companies in the auditorium of Saarland University. https://cispa.de/en/airbus-cispa-day-2022 cispa_news_954 en 185 1670367600 In this episode, CISPA Faculty Dr. Rebekka Burkholz talks to us about what relational machine learning is and what opportunities machine learning methods open up in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The mathematician also provides insights into what distinguishes computer scientists from mathematicians and what, in her view, would help to inspire more women to pursue career https://cispa.de/en/podcast-machine-learning cispa_news_952 en 185 1670367600 Episode 15 of CISPA's TL;DR podcast is online. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-maschinelles-lernen cispa_news_1466 en 185 1670367600 Episode 15 of CISPA's TL;DR podcast is online. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/insights/Podcast_WomenInCybersecurity/podcast/2022/burkholz cispa_news_946 en 185 1670194800 Cybercriminals attempt to obtain money, data, and the computing power of web users using a wide variety of methods. To keep this danger as low as possible, modern browsers support several security mechanisms. https://cispa.de/en/security-lottery cispa_news_944 en 185 1669935600 28-year-old Tẹjúmádé Àfọ̀njá is taking on the challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) research at CISPA, but her involvement doesn't end there. In her spare time, she also founded exciting projects in Nigeria and promotes the dissemination of AI-knowledge through her efforts. https://cispa.de/en/tejumade-afonja-interview cispa_news_941 en 185 1669676400 In June 2022, Airbus and CISPA announced the establishment of the Airbus-CISPA Digital Innovation Hub. Evert Dudok, Executive Vice President Connected Intelligence at Airbus Defence and Space, will bring in the future. https://cispa.de/en/interview-evert-dudok cispa_news_938 en 185 1667948400 Episode 14 of the CISPA Podcast TL;DR is online. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode-14 cispa_news_936 en 185 1667948400 Episode 14 of the CISPA Podcast TL;DR is online. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-schwarz-kogler cispa_news_933 en 185 1667862000 CISPA and Airbus will present their recently launched collaboration and the Airbus-CISPA Digital Innovation Hub at the CISPA Innovation Campus to students, researchers and interested parties in the auditorium of Saarland University on November 30. https://cispa.de/en/airbus-cispa cispa_news_927 en 185 1667775600 Computer science students at Saarland University honor the CISPA researcher for the second time for his outstanding performance. https://cispa.de/en/busy-beaver-award cispa_news_921 en 185 1666648800 The European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI (ELSA), a recently established AI center of excellence composed of top European researchers, met in Barcelona for the first time for three days from October 10-12. https://cispa.de/en/elsa-kickoff cispa_news_919 en 185 1666130400 On Tuesday, October 18, scientists from Loria and CISPA met to exchange their work on quantum attacks, (post)-quantum cryptography, network security, differential attacks, and fuzzing. This is the 5th CISPA-Loria workshop since the French-German Center for Cybersecurity was established in 2020. https://cispa.de/en/german-french-workshop cispa_news_916 en 185 1666044000 "What happens in the background when I call up a website on my smartphone?" asks Dominik Kempter, no one in particular. Sitting in front of him is the 11th-grade class of the technical secondary school in Saarbrücken. Soft whispers can be heard in the seminar room in Saarbrücken's Saarlandhalle. Two hands go up. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-cyber-days cispa_news_910 en 185 1666044000 Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schinzel will give a talk on  „Email (in)security: room for improvement or lost cause?“ Tuesday, 18th of October,  10 CEST https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-events/distinguished-lecture-series/lectures/schinzel cispa_news_914 en 185 1665612000 Users often have false expectations of anti-stalkerware and their technical capabilities. CISPA researcher Matthias Fassl investigated how far expectations and reality diverge. https://cispa.de/en/anti-stalkerware cispa_news_907 en 185 1664834400 In episode 13 of TL;DR we talk to CISPA Faculty Prof. Dr. Mario Fritz about the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence. https://cispa.de/en/podcast-fritz cispa_news_904 en 185 1664834400 Episode 13 of the CISPA Podcast TL;DR is online. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/insights/podcast/podcast/2022/fritz cispa_news_897 en 185 1662674400 CISPA researcher Soheil Khodayari examined for the first time how effective samsite cookies are. He presented his paper "The State of the SameSite: Studying the Usage, Effectiveness, and Adequacy of SameSite Cookies" at the prestigious IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in San Francisco. https://cispa.de/en/samesite cispa_news_894 en 185 1662415200 To lay a foundation for a security analysis of open source software CISPA researcher Dominik Wermke conducted an interview study with contributors to OSS projects. https://cispa.de/en/oss-security cispa_news_891 en 185 1662069600 CISPA TL;DR Episode 12 https://cispa.de/tldr-episode-12 cispa_news_890 en 185 1662069600 CISPA TL;DR Episode 12 https://cispa.de/en/causality-in-machine-learning cispa_news_887 en 185 1661896800 For his research on efficient algorithms that better balance privacy protection and performance of federated machine learning approaches, CISPA faculty member Sebastian Stich is receiving a €100,000 grant from Meta Research. https://cispa.de/en/algorithms cispa_news_884 en 185 1661378400 CISPA researcher Dingfan Chen is being honored by international tech company Qualcomm for her innovative research approach to privacy-compliant synthetic data generation using artificial intelligence and will receive a $40,000 grant. https://cispa.de/en/qualcomm-fellowship cispa_news_877 en 185 1660255200 Paper presentations with involvement by CISPA researchers, August 12 https://cispa.de/en/cispa-usenix cispa_news_876 en 185 1660168800 Paper presentations with involvement by CISPA researchers, August 11 https://cispa.de/en/usenix22-thursday cispa_news_875 en 185 1660082400 Paper presentations with involvement by CISPA researchers, August 10 https://cispa.de/en/usenix22-wednesday cispa_news_879 en 185 1659996000 After Spectre, Meltdown, and Zombieload, another vulnerability in modern processors has shaken users' data security. ÆPIC is one of the first discovered CPU vulnerabilities that can be used to read sensitive data such as passwords directly from a cache. Attackers do not have to make any elaborate detours via side channels. Intel is providing important updates to users to close thi https://cispa.de/en/aepic cispa_news_874 en 185 1659909600 The ERC has awarded CISPA Faculty Prof. Bernd Finkbeiner an ERC Advanced Grant, meaning that around 2.3 million euros of funding will flow into his HYPER project. The project aims at developing a specification language capable of mathematically formalizing even complex social concepts such as fairness, privacy, or explainability. https://cispa.de/en/erc-grant-hyper cispa_news_871 en 185 1659391200 CISPA TL;DR Episode 11 is online now! https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode-11 cispa_news_862 en 185 1659391200 Thomas will give a talk on "Improving Password-based Authentication" on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, at 10:00 CEST https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-events/distinguished-lecture-series/lectures/ristenpart cispa_news_870 en 185 1659391200 CISPA TL;DR Episode 11 https://cispa.de/en/usable-security cispa_news_1463 en 185 1659391200 CISPA TL;DR Episode 11 https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/insights/Podcast_WomenInCybersecurity/podcast/2022/krombholz cispa_news_867 en 185 1659304800 A large network of top European experts in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is to promote the development and deployment of cutting-edge AI solutions in the future and make Europe the world's lighthouse of secure and safe AI. The EU is funding the project with around 7.5 million euros, with a further 2.5 million euros coming from the United Kingdom and Switze https://cispa.de/en/elsa cispa_news_864 en 185 1658872800 In October, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Holz began his work at CISPA. The tenured faculty joined us from the Ruhr University in Bochum. Leaving his old workplace certainly was not easy for the 40-year-old. In an interview, he tells us why he took the plunge after all - and how his career started. https://cispa.de/en/interview-thorsten-holz cispa_news_859 en 185 1658095200 Everything went quickly for our senior scientist Dr. Nico Döttling in recent months. In December 2021, he became Tenured Faculty, the "Cyberagentur" placed its first feasibility study in his hands in the same month, and the ERC awarded him an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million euros for his research at the beginning of 2022. https://cispa.de/en/nico-doettling cispa_news_856 en 185 1657836000 Dr. Yang Zhang, faculty at CISPA, is working on the international research project "D-Solve" for the personalized treatment of hepatitis D. https://cispa.de/en/trustworthy-ai cispa_news_853 en 185 1657490400 Scientific event for Cybersecurity students and phD students. https://cispa.de/en/summer-school-2022 cispa_news_844 en 185 1656885600 Unlike humans, AI truly has the memory of an elephant. Once the underlying machine learning models have learned from data, they never forget it. However, humans have a right to exactly that. In her paper "Graph Unlearning," CISPA researcher Min Chen shows how even complex machine learning models can learn to forget. https://cispa.de/en/machine-unlearning cispa_news_854 en 185 1656885600 The LOKI pilot project was launched on 1 July 2022 under the leadership of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and in collaboration with the Academy for Public Health Services (AÖGW), the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ). The https://cispa.de/en/loki cispa_news_850 en 185 1656626400 In episode 10 of TL;DR, we discuss CISPA Faculty Dr. Julian Loss’s newest research project on so called „mix nets“: networks that can help anonymize internet traffic. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-episode-10 cispa_news_847 en 185 1656626400 In episode 10 of TL;DR, we discuss CISPA Faculty Dr. Julian Loss’s newest research project on so called „mix nets“: networks that can help anonymize internet traffic. https://cispa.de/en/mixnet-security cispa_news_837 en 185 1655848800 Competence center to create over 500 jobs in Saarland region in Germany. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-airbus cispa_news_828 en 185 1655244000 Supervisory Board of CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security meets in presence for the first time in two years. https://cispa.de/en/supervisory-board cispa_news_824 en 185 1655157600 Nick Nikiforakis will give a talk on "Small and Different: Security and Privacy Risks of Mobile Browsers" Tuesday, 14th of June, at 15:00 CEST.  https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-events/distinguished-lecture-series/lectures/nikiforakis cispa_news_808 en 185 1655071200 The senior scientist will receive around 80,000 euros for his research on the security of so-called mix networks. https://cispa.de/en/dmna cispa_news_825 en 185 1654725600 The computer scientist conducts software and hardware security research and joins CISPA from Ruhr University Bochum. https://cispa.de/en/ali-abbasi-22 cispa_news_816 en 185 1654207200 The number of our senior scientists continues to grow. On October 1, Xiao Zhang will join CISPA from the University of Virginia. https://cispa.de/en/xiao-zhang-22 cispa_news_823 en 185 1654120800 CISPA-TL;DR Episode 9 https://cispa.de/en/tldr-browser-extensions cispa_news_821 en 185 1654120800 In our latest episode of TL;DR, we talk with CISPA researcher Dr. Aurore Fass about her research on browser extension security and the DoubleX analysis tool she developed. The French native also tells us when she discovered her passion for computer science and cybersecurity research, and what advice she has for young women interested in these topics. https://cispa.de/en/browser-extensions cispa_news_1468 en 185 1654120800 In our latest episode of TL;DR, we talk with CISPA researcher Dr. Aurore Fass about her research on browser extension security and the DoubleX analysis tool she developed. The French native also tells us when she discovered her passion for computer science and cybersecurity research, and what advice she has for young women interested in these topics. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/insights/Podcast_WomenInCybersecurity/podcast/2022/aurore cispa_news_817 en 185 1653861600 The information engineer is an expert in so-called adversarial machine learning, i.e., machine learning from an attacker's perspective. https://cispa.de/en/schoenherr22 cispa_news_813 en 185 1653516000 Another top researcher joins the group of senior scientists at CISPA. Krikamol Muandet will join CISPA on September 1 from the renowned Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen. https://cispa.de/en/krikamol22 cispa_news_811 en 185 1653429600 Researchers and responsible persons of the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and the Cyberagentur (German Cyber Agency) met in Saarbrücken on Wednesday to discuss the first interim results of their feasibility study on Encrypted Computing. https://cispa.de/en/encrypted-computing cispa_news_806 en 185 1653343200 A native of the Netherlands, Wouter Lueks joins CISPA from EPFL and is an expert in designing privacy-friendly systems. https://cispa.de/en/lueks22 cispa_news_805 en 185 1653256800 Summer is just around the corner and the enrollment deadlines for the winter semester are already approaching. For many students, the agony of choice now begins. On Saturday, May 21, CISPA opened its doors to make it easier for interested students to choose a course of study. https://cispa.de/open-door-2022 cispa_news_802 en 185 1652824800 Huijia (Rachel) Lin will give a talk on "How to Hide Secrets in Software?"  on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at 17:00 CEST https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-events/distinguished-lecture-series/lectures/lin cispa_news_787 en 185 1651615200 Most small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany take many technical measures to protect their data and secure computer systems. However, training employees accordingly and creating sufficient awareness of cyber risks falls by the wayside in some companies. This is what CISPA researcher Nicolas Huaman Groschopf found out in an interview study. https://cispa.de/en/sme-security cispa_news_785 en 185 1651528800 In this month’s episode of TL;DR, we talk to CISPA faculty Dr. Giancarlo Pellegrino about his early days at CISPA, about the evolution of web applications, about breaking news of horror vulnerabilities with flashy names and about what the future will hold for his security research. Enjoy listening! https://cispa.de/en/podcast-pellegrino cispa_news_780 en 185 1651528800 CISPA-TL;DR Episode 8 https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/insights/podcast/podcast/2022/pellegrino cispa_news_776 en 185 1651183200 CISPA participated in Boys' Day for the first time this year. On this international day of action, our legal department gave four students from Saarland exciting insight into the working life of paralegals. https://cispa.de/en/boys-day cispa_news_777 en 185 1651183200 On Thursday, April 28, scientists from both research institutions again exchanged their work on IT security at the CISPA-Loria workshop. This time, the focus was on formal methods and thus the theoretical foundations for the security of our current information and communication infrastructure. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-loria-2022 cispa_news_774 en 185 1651010400 A novel attack allows attackers to inject machine learning models with new tasks undetected and make them work for them. Ahmed Salem developed this "Model Hijacking Attack" during his PhD studies at CISPA. He is to present his paper "Get a Model! Model Hijacking Attack Against Machine Learning Models" at the renowned IT security conference NDSS. https://cispa.de/en/hijacking-attack cispa_news_772 en 185 1650405600 The increasing proliferation of blockchain-based digital currencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum has sparked interest among central banks worldwide to launch their own digital currencies. CISPA's new faculty member Dr. Karl Wüst's currently focuses his research on security and privacy aspects of digital currencies and is working on a novel approach to create a fundamentally anonymo https://cispa.de/en/digital-currency cispa_news_768 en 185 1649800800 Saar University students honor the CISPA researcher for his outstanding teaching. https://cispa.de/en/busy-beaver cispa_news_765 en 185 1649109600 In this episode of the CISPA podcast TL;DR (in German) we talk to CISPA faculty Prof. Dr. Thorsten Holz about software security. https://cispa.de/softwaresicherheit cispa_news_764 en 185 1649109600 In the seventh episode of the CISPA podcast TL;DR we talk to CISPA faculty Prof. Dr. Thorsten Holz about software security and his project "Resilient and Sustainable Software Security", RS3 for short. https://cispa.de/en/podcast-software-security cispa_news_760 en 185 1647903600 The NortonLifeLock company funds Xinlei He's innovative research on the security and privacy of machine learning systems with $20,000. https://cispa.de/en/fellowship cispa_news_762 en 185 1647903600 Promoting the settlement of startups on the CISPA Innovation Campus in St. Ingbert https://cispa.de/en/settlement-and-development-company cispa_news_753 en 185 1647471600 ERC Consolidator Grant for CISPA Faculty Member Thorsten Holz https://cispa.de/en/erc-holz cispa_news_755 en 185 1647471600 CISPA Venture Capital Fund Raises 50 Million Euros https://cispa.de/en/vcfund cispa_news_751 en 185 1647298800 Do you know Dr. Aleksandar Bojchevski? No? It has been shown that most likely you do know him by six degrees of separation. This is called the small-world phenomenon. And this has a lot to do with the research of Aleksandar Bojchevski, who is currently working primarily on so-called graph-based machine learning models. https://cispa.de/en/graphbased-machine-learning cispa_news_749 en 185 1647212400 In capture-the-flag competitions Team Saarsec regularly demonstrates its skills. Here, CISPA faculty and Saarsec co-chair Dr. Ben Stock and his teammates Sebastian Roth, PhD student at CISPA, and Julian Rederlechner, cybersecurity student , tell us what they find fascinating about CTFs and what the upcoming 2-day workshop will be about. https://cispa.de/en/capture-the-flag cispa_news_742 en 185 1646866800 Foundation stone for innovative high-tech research campus https://cispa.de/en/foundation-stone cispa_news_740 en 185 1646348400 Several internship positions for Ukrainian computer science students https://cispa.de/en/science-for-ukraine cispa_news_738 en 185 1646262000 "Federated learning, in which many devices jointly train a machine learning (ML) model, offers enormous advantages compared to centralized approaches in terms of data protection and the required computing power," says CISPA faculty Dr. Sebastian Stich. He explains how it works and why this field of research is so exciting. https://cispa.de/en/federated-machine-learning cispa_news_734 en 185 1646002800 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 artificial intelligence. https://cispa.de/en/podcast-deepfakes cispa_news_736 en 185 1646002800 CISPA-TL;DR Episode 6 (in English) https://cispa.de/en/deepfakes cispa_news_732 en 185 1644447600 Blockchain-based payment systems have increasingly become a possible alternative to traditional payment systems. However, they have so far been neither as efficient nor as secure. "Making blockchain systems a secure and scalable environment presents many new and interesting challenges from a cryptographer's perspective," says Dr. Julian Loss. https://cispa.de/en/blockchain-security cispa_news_728 en 185 1643583600 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 artificial intelligence. https://cispa.de/en/tldr-password-security cispa_news_729 en 185 1643583600 In the 5th episode of our podcast, we talk with CISPA faculty Dr. Sven Bugiel about secure logins and passwords. The senior scientist explains why password managers make sense, how to use them properly, and what options there are for 2-factor authentication.  https://cispa.de/en/password-security cispa_news_725 en 185 1642719600 The Internet, cell phone networks, control elements in vehicles - everywhere, computers work together in a network. How individual computers can work together effectively, which problems can be solved better in a network than by a single computer, and where the performance limits of these so-called distributed systems lie, are just some of the questions that new CISPA faculty Seba https://cispa.de/en/distributed-systems cispa_news_722 en 185 1642114800 "We want to make artificial intelligence trustworthy," says Lukas Bieringer, CEO of the startup QuantPi, formulating an ambitious goal. With its AutoXAI software, QuantPi enables companies to gain comprehensive insights into the decision-making processes of the AI models they use. https://cispa.de/en/quantpi cispa_news_721 en 185 1641769200 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 on so-called "Laconic Cryptography". In the LACONIC project, he wants to develop new computationally efficient cryptographic methods and techniques that guarantee security when exchanging very large amounts of data. His research sho https://cispa.de/en/erc-grant-nico-doettling cispa_news_719 en 185 1641510000 For the new year, Dr. Vaibhav Bajpai takes up his new position in Hannover, where he and his team will primarily conduct research on improving the performance, reliability, security, and privacy of Internet applications. https://cispa.de/en/vaibhav-bajpai cispa_news_703 en 185 1641423600 The new CISPA tool "Dr. Headerson" helps to check websites for vulnerabilities that allow so-called clickjacking attacks. Site operators can also find a detailed security analysis of the checked website on our demonstrator page, including tips on how to fix potential problems. https://cispa.de/en/clickjacking-attacks cispa_news_714 en 185 1641164400 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 artificial intelligence once a month. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/news-archive/articles/2022/01.03.%20-%20Podcast%20Mridula cispa_news_709 en 185 1641164400 In the first episode of TL;DR in 2022, we’re talking to Dr. Mridula Singh, one of our latest Faculty hires. In this podcast, Mridula tells us all about how she helped make newer cars with keyless entry systems more secure and why 5G networks will be important for self-driving cars in the future. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/insights/podcast/podcast/2021/Singh cispa_news_706 en 185 1639609200 New tool helps to check IT infrastructures for critical vulnerability. About a week ago, the critical IT security vulnerability log4j was discovered, which allows attackers to smuggle malware onto servers. https://cispa.de/en/codeshield cispa_news_707 en 185 1639609200 CISPA researcher Dr. Michael Schwarz, together with an international team of researchers, has developed two frameworks that can be used to model possible attacks on microprocessors. With libtea and SCFirefox, as the two frameworks are called, attacks such as Spectre or Meltdown can be better analyzed and their risks more easily assessed. https://cispa.de/en/fight-against-meltdown-spectre cispa_news_689 en 185 1639609200 Gang Wang from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will give a talk on Thursday, December 16, at 16 CET https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-events/distinguished-lecture-series/lectures/wang cispa_news_700 en 185 1639522800 Joint Project with Prof. Jörn Müller-Quade from KIT in Karlsruhe. The cyber agency (German: Cyberagentur) has awarded the contract for its first tendered project to CISPA-Faculty Dr. Nico Döttling and with Prof. Jörn Müller-Quade from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). https://cispa.de/en/cyberagentur cispa_news_698 en 185 1638918000 The software tool Osiris automatically searches for so-called side channels in microprocessors that unintentionally reveal information and thus enable attackers to steal data. The program to combat attacks such as Spectre was developed by Daniel Weber, who works as a research assistant in the team of CISPA faculty member Dr. Michael Schwarz. https://cispa.de/osiris cispa_news_696 en 185 1638745200 Statement by the Alliance of Science Organisations https://cispa.de/en/statement-alliance-of-science-organisations cispa_news_693 en 185 1638486000 IT security researchers from both countries shared their research and presented the results of their collaboration on Tuesday. https://cispa.de/cybersecurity-workshop cispa_news_691 en 185 1638399600 After a successful probationary period, Dr. Katharina Krombholz, Dr. -Ing. Ben Stock, Dr. Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Dr. Nico Döttling, and Dr. -Ing. Sven Bugiel have been appointed tenured faculty. https://cispa.de/tenured-faculty-2021 cispa_news_688 en 185 1638313200 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 artificial intelligence once a month. https://cispa.de/en/podcast-ep-3 cispa_news_686 en 185 1638313200 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 artificial intelligence once a month. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/insights/podcast/podcast/2021/d%C3%B6ttling cispa_news_684 en 185 1637881200 In his thesis, Wilhelm presents the IT security tool retroCSP. It ensures that important functions of the Content Security Policy (CSP) security mechanism can be retrofitted in web browsers. https://cispa.de/en/moritz-wilhelm-cast-sponsorship cispa_news_682 en 185 1637622000 Installing a content security policy (CSP) on websites could be a real game-changer in terms of web security. It could - because there are still too many problems with it. In a qualitative study, CISPA researchers Sebastian Roth and Lea Gröber have for the first time shed light on exactly where the pitfalls for developers lie. https://cispa.de/csp cispa_news_668 en 185 1636930800 Engin  from Northeastern University will give a talk on Monday, November 15, 2021, at 15:00 CET https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-events/distinguished-lecture-series/lectures/kirda cispa_news_680 en 185 1636585200 CISPA faculty Dr. Mridula Singh develops secure methods for the ever-growing application field of precise distance measurements and positioning. https://cispa.de/secure-positioning cispa_news_677 en 185 1636326000 Digitalization offers extraordinary opportunities for business and society, but in the process, it also creates significant risks of espionage, manipulation, and threats to privacy. Cyber attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated; the threat in this regard has recently increased significantly in Germany. https://cispa.de/en/strategic-research-operation cispa_news_676 en 185 1636066800 The former CISPA administration manager Dr. Kevin Streit has been appointed as the new administrative director of CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security. https://cispa.de/en/kevin-streit-new-coo cispa_news_675 en 185 1635980400 Kevin Streit tells what the new position means for him and what will change with him as administrative director at the Helmholtz Center for Information Security https://cispa.de/en/kevin-streit-interview cispa_news_672 en 185 1635894000 In the second episode of CISPA's TL;DR podcast, we talked to CISPA faculty Dr. Cristian-Alexandru Staicu about how modern software development works and the security risks involved. https://cispa.de/en/podcast-ep-2 cispa_news_670 en 185 1635894000 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 artificial intelligence once a month. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/insights/podcast/podcast/2021/staicu cispa_news_667 en 185 1635458400 To diagnose cancer earlier and fight and treat the disease more effectively, machine learning (ML) methods are increasingly being used in cancer research. https://cispa.de/en/machine-learning cispa_news_664 en 185 1634680800 CISPA researcher Dr. Robert Künnemann researches accountability in crypto protocols. If she offers her hand first, it may be shaken slightly. Whoever is addressed by her may address her. The procedure of a meeting with Queen Elizabeth II is strictly regulated by court protocol. https://cispa.de/en/robert-kuennemann-accountability cispa_news_661 en 185 1634508000 The German Research Foundation is funding a project by CISPA faculty Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller and Prof. Dr. Lars Grunske of Humboldt University in Berlin with 500,000 euros. https://cispa.de/en/the-automated-scientist cispa_news_657 en 185 1633644000 CISPA faculty member Michael Schwarz and an international team of researchers have discovered a novel Spectre attack and developed a defense tool. Many companies and individuals use so-called cloud services, through which servers, computing power, storage space, and other resources can be accessed from the Internet as needed. https://cispa.de/spectre-attack cispa_news_651 en 185 1633039200 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 artificial intelligence once a month. https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/insights/podcast/podcast/2021/fassl cispa_news_653 en 185 1632952800 On Spotify, Deezer, Soundcloud, and Apple Podcasts, cybersecurity research is now available for your listening pleasure. Don't feel like trudging through long research papers? Therefore, overcoming one's weaker self is no longer necessary. https://cispa.de/cispa-podcast cispa_news_642 en 185 1632434400 CISPA faculty Prof. Bernd Finkbeiner wants to use automatically programmed monitoring components to get drones and air taxis into the air safely. Drones have long been buzzing through the air for filming or collecting weather data, for example. https://cispa.de/en/lola-flies cispa_news_640 en 185 1632261600 CISPA researcher Johannes Krupp is awarded a Distinguished Paper Award for his new approach to tracking specific DDoS attacks. Error messages popped up on the computers of U.S. users for more than two hours as they tried to access online services such as Twitter, Spotify, eBay, and Netflix on a day in October 2016. https://cispa.de/en/ddos-attacks cispa_news_638 en 185 1631743200 CISPA experts on the problems with the Luca app. As of April 2021, 13 of the 16 German states have officially launched the Luca app, spending a total of roughly 21 million euros on it. It has been under criticism since day one of its release. https://cispa.de/en/luca-app cispa_news_662 en 185 1631656800 Franziska will give a talk on "Can You Believe It? Security and Privacy Case Studies in Online Advertising, Misinformation, and Augmented Reality" on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, at 16:00 CEST  https://cispa.de/en/news-and-events/all-events/distinguished-lecture-series/lectures/roesner cispa_news_635 en 185 1631224800 In his SOUPS paper, CISPA researcher Alexander Ponticello sheds light on new authentication mechanisms for voice assistants. "Alexa, transfer 20 euros to Sabrina" - "Okay, now tell me your PIN" - this is what many a conversation in living rooms sounds like in the US. https://cispa.de/en/soups-paper-ponticello cispa_news_633 en 185 1630015200 At the renowned USENIX Security Symposium, CISPA researcher Soheil Khodayari presented the JAW analysis tool, which he is using to learn more about a new type of attack on the Web. https://cispa.de/en/jaw cispa_news_630 en 185 1629410400 CISPA researcher Prof. Dr. Mario Fritz is researching possible ways to detect deepfakes. How will people still be able to form an opinion in the future if they cannot trust their eyes and ears? This question will become more pressing in the coming years. https://cispa.de/en/battle-for-data-credibility cispa_news_628 en 185 1628805600 CISPA Researcher Dr. Ben Stock on the CSP Security Mechanism and the need for empowered users. "The best tools in the world won't help us if those who use them don't understand them," says Dr. Ben Stock. https://cispa.de/en/csp-security-mechanism cispa_news_624 en 185 1628632800 USENIX is one of 4 ranked A* conferences in security. A total of 13 papers with involvement of CISPA researchers have been accepted at the 30th USENIX Security Symposium. USENIX is one of the 4 ranked A* security conferences. https://cispa.de/en/13-papers-at-usenix-21 cispa_news_622 en 185 1628200800 Securing code against Spectre attacks without significant performance loss has occupied cybersecurity researchers for years. Now, CISPA researcher Dr. Marco Vassena, together with colleagues from the University of California in San Diego and the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, ... https://cispa.de/en/new-tool-blade cispa_news_619 en 185 1627596000 "Improved security" and "absolute privacy" when surfing the net - for some time now, providers have been advertising their so-called double, multi-hop, cascade, or chain VPN services with these and other promises. These services route users' data traffic in encrypted form via multiple servers to the actual destination. https://cispa.de/en/no-added-cybersecurity-vpn cispa_news_616 en 185 1626904800 "Solving puzzles is one of my favorite things to do," says Christoph Lenzen. The 39-year-old has been a senior scientist at CISPA since the beginning of July. https://cispa.de/en/staying-in-sync cispa_news_612 en 185 1626818400 From September 11 – 18, 2021, CISPA is offering a Cybersecurity event in every district of Saarland. As part of this roadshow, you can experience a varied program for citizens of every age at 6 event locations. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-roadshow-2021 cispa_news_610 en 185 1626300000 The number of senior scientists at CISPA is growing rapidly. In spring, the Helmholtz Center announced that there will be eight new faculty in 2021, bringing the number of senior scientists to 30. Now, another highly renowned researcher is joining the Saarbrücken Helmholtz Center as tenured faculty. https://cispa.de/en/thorsten-holz-new-faculty cispa_news_591 en 185 1625522400 Microsoft funds the work of CISPA researcher Dr. Jacqueline Brendel with more than 60.000 euros https://cispa.de/en/post-quantum-cryptography cispa_news_589 en 185 1625004000 CISPA’s second Digital Summer School will be taking place from August 30 to September 3, 2021. This year’s focus will be on “Coding Techniques & Advanced Post-Quantum Cryptography” featuring 11 international invited speakers throughout the week. https://cispa.de/en/digital-summer-school-2021 cispa_news_588 en 185 1624572000 Nowadays, many headphones are connected to smartphones via Bluetooth, printers are linked to PCs using this technology, and cell phones are networked with car radios. Developed at the end of the 1990s, this wireless technology is now replacing USB, network, and audio cables in many places for connecting devices over short distances. https://cispa.de/en/bluetooth-more-security cispa_news_586 en 185 1624312800 CISPA startup DeepSign aims to revolutionize authentication and bring the technology of the future to the workplace. With its novel, user-friendly approach, the founding team prevailed in the semi-finals of the German Cybersecurity Cup, both with... https://cispa.de/en/deepsign-four-best-security-startups cispa_news_583 en 185 1623967200 "No matter how many infection chains we break, we save lives," was the guiding principle of Prof. Dr. Cas Cremers, senior scientist at CISPA, when he embarked on work on the DP-3T (Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing) project just over a year ago. Based on this project, the German Corona warning app was created a few weeks later. https://cispa.de/en/one-year-corona-warn-app cispa_news_581 en 185 1623276000 When developing computer programs, debugging takes up an immense amount of space. Programmers often spend more than half of their time just tracking down bugs and fixing them, explains CISPA faculty member and university professor Dr. Andreas Zeller. https://cispa.de/en/interactive-textbook cispa_news_573 en 185 1622584800 The Spectre and Meltdown processor vulnerabilities continue to keep cybersecurity experts and software developers around the world on their toes, more than three years after their discovery. In 2017, a group of international researchers, including CISPA faculty member Dr. Michael Schwarz, discovered vulnerabilities ... https://cispa.de/en/spectre cispa_news_566 en 185 1622152800 When surfing the web, users are constantly confronted with cookie banners that offer them complicated choices such as "store and/or retrieve information on a device," "measure ad performance," and "create a personalized ad profile. https://cispa.de/en/cookie-banners cispa_news_562 en 185 1621202400 In the current hiring season, CISPA was able to attract outstanding researchers to work at the center. The future faculty will move to Saarbrücken from internationally renowned research institutions. This brings the number of faculty alone at CISPA to 30. https://cispa.de/en/new-scientists cispa_news_564 en 185 1620684000 Just how sophisticated and dangerous cyberattacks can be is illustrated by the case of the SolarWinds attack that became known in December 2020. Hackers succeeded in injecting malicious code into the Orion network monitoring software of the Texas-based IT service provider SolarWinds and gaining access to sensitive data of its users. https://cispa.de/en/solarwinds cispa_news_560 en 185 1620338400 The joy over a Corona vaccination is great among many pandemic sufferers. More and more often, people are posting a photo of their vaccination card on social media after receiving the jab. CISPA faculty member Dr. Nico Döttling explains why this is not only a feast for counterfeiters. https://cispa.de/en/vaccination-card-postings cispa_news_559 en 185 1620252000 As early as 1935, physicist Erwin Schrödinger showed with a thought experiment that the principles of the quantum world cannot be easily transferred to our everyday life. In the scenario, a now quite famous cat squats in a box for an hour together with a barbaric killing device. https://cispa.de/en/hooray-she-is-alive cispa_news_554 en 185 1619733600 In the winter semester 2021/2022, Saarland University will, for the first time, offer its bachelor's degree program in Cybersecurity entirely in English. The scientists of CISPA very much welcome the decision to provide the subject Cybersecurity in German and English now. https://cispa.de/en/bachelor-cybersecurity-english cispa_news_546 en 185 1619560800 A deafening beep keeps ringing in the hallway on the third floor of the high-rise building. One by one, the smoke detectors on the other floors go off to warn the residents of the fire - long before the smoke has spread throughout the building in thick clouds. This is because the detectors are connected and communicate with each other. https://cispa.de/en/growing-pains cispa_news_541 en 185 1618524000 On paper, programs and tools can offer as much protection as they like, but if used incorrectly or if people do not trust them, they are useless. Therefore, the human factor must always be taken into account when developing technical solutions. After all, users are the first and last defenders against cyberattacks. https://cispa.de/en/michael-schilling-perspectives cispa_news_539 en 185 1618351200 Students have honored CISPA researchers Professor Bernd Finkbeiner and Dr. Michael Schwarz with the "Busy Beaver Award" for their special commitment to teaching in the winter semester 2020/21. https://cispa.de/en/busy-beaver-award-finkbeiner-schwarz cispa_news_534 en 185 1617746400 CISPA Founding Director & CEO Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Backes has signed the "Charta der Vielfalt" (Charter of diversity). CISPA is dedicated to diversity and tolerance and commits itself to create equal opportunities for all employees and promoting a climate of openness. https://cispa.de/en/charta-der-vielfalt cispa_news_528 en 185 1617228000 Hundreds of thousands of new malware programs are registered worldwide every day. Such viruses, spyware, and Trojans can completely paralyze networks, spy on users, steal critical data, and damage operating systems. In order to detect malicious programs and remove them from the computer, various types of malware scanners are used. https://cispa.de/en/hidden-in-a-tree cispa_news_530 en 185 1617228000 Join our digital Easter egg hunt - fun for kids and adults! We have hidden so-called flags for you on our campaign page. How many can you find? The Easter Challenge runs until April 6. https://cispa.de/en/cysec-lab-easter-challenge cispa_news_524 en 185 1616454000 Why do social media profiles get hacked so often? What is phishing? And why do security questions not improve security? Experts from the CISPA CysecLab will answer these and other questions at this year's Girls' Day on April 22 in two different workshops for schoolgirls in the 5th and 7th grades.  https://cispa.de/en/student-lab-girls-day cispa_news_522 en 185 1616367600 The first CISPA satellite is currently being built in Hanover in cooperation with Leibniz University and the state of Lower Saxony. In the coming years, scientists will conduct research there on industrial security and user-oriented cybersecurity. CISPA faculty member Sascha Fahl and his research group are paving the way. https://cispa.de/en/sascha-fahl-pioneering-work cispa_news_520 en 185 1616108400 Professor Andreas Zeller's research has spurred important software engineering developments and manifested itself in many practical applications. In April, one of his papers will again be declared to be among the most significant of its time at the International Conference on Software Testing (ICST) - for a record-breaking sixth time. https://cispa.de/en/andreas-zeller-most-influential-paper-award cispa_news_518 en 185 1615935600 Advertising has been ever-present on the Internet for years. For site operators, it is often the best way to earn money from their web content. However, advertisements and other third-party services often clash with security mechanisms of websites. Operators have to choose between useful features and IT security. https://cispa.de/en/website-security-mechanisms cispa_news_508 en 185 1615158000 To detect and interrupt chains of infection at an early stage during the Corona pandemic, effective contact tracing management is required. To this end, German health authorities are to uniformly use SORMAS, a digital system for epidemic control. https://cispa.de/en/sormas-software cispa_news_513 en 185 1614812400 With its idea of a completely digitally equipped vehicle, the Saarbrücken-based start-up ELEXIR has won first place at the Saarland Accelerator. In the intensive program financed by the Saarland Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labor, Energy, and Transport, ... https://cispa.de/en/elexir-wins-competition cispa_news_507 en 185 1614726000 CISPA-Faculty Dr. Michael Schwarz has been honored with the Award of Excellence for his dissertation "Software-based Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses in Restricted Environments". The 29-year-old is one of 40 scientists honored by Austrian Science Minister Heinz Faßmann. https://cispa.de/en/michael-schwarz-award-of-excellence cispa_news_516 en 185 1614553200 The work of a postdoctoral researcher in Germany and the opportunities at a German research center are the focus of the lecture of CISPA-Faculty Professor Dr. Andreas Zeller.  https://cispa.de/en/video-andreas-zeller cispa_news_503 en 185 1613689200 The question of the right, most secure, even the best password is always topical - both for media representatives and, of course, for cybersecurity researchers. Many people will be particularly interested in this question on February 1. That's "change your password day." https://cispa.de/en/sven-bugiel-interview cispa_news_498 en 185 1613343600 What do Finn the fox, an emergency-landed spaceship, and an adventure game app for children have to do with the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security? If the start-up Foldio has its way, quite a bit. On Monday, February 15, the start-up released the app adventure "Ein Fuchs im Netz." https://cispa.de/en/foldio-publishes-adventure-game cispa_news_496 en 185 1612479600 Scientists very well received the first virtual workshop day of the Franco-German Center for Cybersecurity from Nancy and Saarbrücken. At a virtual CISPA, the first virtual workshop day of the Franco-German Center for Cybersecurity took place on Thursday, February 4, 2021. https://cispa.de/en/franco-german-cybersecurity-workshop cispa_news_494 en 185 1612220400 The data privacy protection of the messenger WhatsApp is set to change in the near future. In the last few weeks, more and more users have been receiving notifications regarding the changes, sparking controversy across various media outlets. https://cispa.de/en/whatsapp-debate cispa_news_482 en 185 1609887600 The CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security is now ranked first worldwide in the current CSRanking in the areas of Computer Security and Cryptography.  https://cispa.de/en/cispa-world-leader cispa_news_468 en 185 1604962800 An international team of security researchers including CISPA Faculty Michael Schwarz is presenting new side-channel attacks that use software-based power measurements to access sensitive data with unprecedented accuracy. https://cispa.de/en/platypus-vulnerabilities-discovered cispa_news_466 en 185 1603926000 CISPA Faculty Prof. Cas Cremers is a finalist in Falling Walls Remote 2020 and was nominated in the category "Engineering and Technology".  Falling Walls is looking for the scientific breakthroughs of the year.  https://cispa.de/en/cremers-falling-walls-2020 cispa_news_463 en 185 1603144800 CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA) from Saarbrücken will be conducting research on cyber security and data protection together with Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) in the future. The strategic cooperation has now been formalized in a cooperation agreement between LUH and CISPA ... https://cispa.de/en/leibniz-university cispa_news_456 en 185 1601935200 The CISPA Innovation Campus will be located at the "Alte Schmelz" in St. Ingbert. This was announced by the Saarland Ministry of Economics in a press release on Tuesday (October 6, 2020). The statement reads: "The Saarland Council of Ministers has given the green light for the opening and development of the "Alte Schmelz" site in St. Ingbert ... https://cispa.de/en/cispa-innovation-campus cispa_news_445 en 185 1594245600 Artificial intelligence for the benefit of data protection. Researchers at the DZNE and the Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA) intend to use “artificial intelligence” to facilitate the transfer of genomic data for research purposes under the strict constraints of data protection. https://cispa.de/en/virtual-cohorts-medical-research cispa_news_103 en 185 1592863200 Professor Dr. Cas Cremers has taken the lead in advising for the security of the Corona Warn App (CWA), and has intensively accompanied the process from the beginning. He was also involved in the earlier work of DP-3T, promoted the decentralised approach, and coordinated communication with all partners. https://cispa.de/en/cremers-corona-warn-app cispa_news_118 en 185 1592172000 We would like to thank all our employees who have put their own research on hold for weeks and have given up most of their free time to complete this app together with our partners. https://cispa.de/en/corona-warn-app cispa_news_119 en 185 1590357600 The number of faculty at CISPA continues to grow. Rayna Dimitrova moves from the University of Sheffield to Saarbrücken. With her, CISPA has already added six new senior scientists in 2020. Previously, Yang Zhang, Dániel Marx, Lucjan Hanzlik, Michael Schwarz and Cristian-Alexandru Staicu had already decided to work as a faculty at the Helmholtz... https://cispa.de/en/rayna-dimitrova-new-faculty cispa_news_120 en 185 1589148000 Lucjan Hanzlik is already well known at CISPA. During his Ph.D. studies, he received the IBM Great Minds award and did an internship at IBM Zurich in the group of Dr. Jan Camenisch. https://cispa.de/en/schwarz-staicu-hanzlik cispa_news_121 en 185 1587852000 “Helmholtz supports the decision of the Federal Government in favor of a decentralized solution supported by a broad international consortium. Germany is represented in the lead role by the Helmholtz Center for Information Security - CISPA. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-helmholtz-coronavirus-app cispa_news_123 en 185 1587333600 CISPA is involved in the efforts to develop privacy-aware contact tracing technology for fighting the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our goal is to develop a working, secure and private-by-design solution as quickly as possible. https://cispa.de/en/contact-tracing-app cispa_news_124 en 185 1587333600 The undersigned statement represents scientists and researchers from across the globe. The current COVID-19 crisis is unprecedented and we need innovative ways of coming out of the current lockdowns. However, we are concerned that some “solutions” to the crisis may, via mission creep, ... https://cispa.de/en/joint-statement-contact-tracing cispa_news_125 en 185 1585864800 A team of cyber security researchers from the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken, Ohio State University and New York University has discovered that many mobile apps are hiding special functions from users that can allow hackers to compromise users’ and mobile app infrastructure security. https://cispa.de/en/hidden-functions cispa_news_126 en 185 1584572400 The two CISPA Faculty Bernd Finkbeiner and Andreas Zeller were awarded the “Landespreis Hochschullehre” of the Saarland on Wednesday, 19 March, for their course of study “Entrepreneurial Cybersecurity”. https://cispa.de/en/state-prize-university-teaching cispa_news_129 en 185 1584399600 How does CISPA react to the current corona pandemic? We are currently experiencing an extreme situation regarding global restrictions on work and life. As some procedures are currently no longer applicable, we will establish new ways of working together within CISPA. https://cispa.de/en/q-and-a-pandemic cispa_news_130 en 185 1583708400 On 1 July Dániel Marx takes up his new position as faculty at CISPA. Born in Hungary, he moves from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken to the federal government’s major research institution based in the Saarland state capital. https://cispa.de/en/daniel-marx-faculty cispa_news_131 en 185 1583362800 Research on the grand cybersecurity challenges that our society faces in the age of digitalization – that is the mission of the CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken. Transferring research results into technological solutions and scalable business models is one of its core activities. https://cispa.de/en/security-teams-backed cispa_news_133 en 185 1579474800 The new French-German Center for Cybersecurity has officially been kicked off at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken on Monday, January 20, at 4 pm. This initiative is aimed to combine the strengths of the two largest and the most renowned institutions. CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and... https://cispa.de/en/cispa-loria cispa_news_134 en 185 1579129200 Currently, he is employed as a research group leader. From January 2017 to December 2018, Yang was a postdoc with Michael Backes. Prior to that, he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Luxembourg under the supervision of Sjouke Mauw and Jun Pang. https://cispa.de/en/yang-zhang-faculty cispa_news_105 en 185 1572303600 The CISPA – Helmholtz Center for Information Security is hiring new faculty. We are looking for outstanding researchers to support our scientific endeavours. Applications are invited for tenure-track and tenured faculty positions. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-hiring-faculty cispa_news_110 en 185 1572303600 Giancarlo Pellegrino and Antoine Joux have accepted a Faculty position at CISPA. Giancarlo is starting his new position at CISPA on October 1, 2019. After a few years as a postdoctoral researcher in Christian Rossow's group, ... https://cispa.de/en/pellegrino-joux cispa_news_108 en 185 1567029600 The foundation stone for a large-scale cooperation with South Korea was laid in Saarbrücken on Wednesday, 28 August. CISPA Founding Director Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Backes, KAIST President Dr. Sung Shul Shin, KAIST Graduate School Speaker Prof. Insik Shin and KIST Europe Director Junkyung Kim signed... https://cispa.de/en/cooperation-korean-partners cispa_news_109 en 185 1566943200 rench cryptographer and future CISPA faculty Antoine Joux was awarded again recently, this time with the IACR Test-of-Time Award. He received the award at the Crypto Conference in Santa Barbara for his paper “Multicollisions in Iterated Hash Functions. Application to Cascaded Constructions” from 2004. https://cispa.de/en/iacr-test-of-time-award cispa_news_111 en 185 1559685600 On June 5, 2019, a meeting of the Supervisory Board took place at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. https://cispa.de/en/meeting-supervisory-board cispa_news_112 en 185 1556575200 The CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with two Chinese research institutions — the Institute of Software (Chinese Academy of Sciences, ISCAS) in Beijing, and the Institute of Intelligent Software in Guangzhou. Saarland University, ... https://cispa.de/en/cooperation-research-institute-china cispa_news_113 en 185 1554674400 For the first time this year, the „CISPA Incubator Advisory Board“ met in Saarbrücken. After a brief review of activities in 2018, the board discussed upcoming events and challenges of startups at CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security in 2019. The incubator team provided a comprising insight into the ... https://cispa.de/en/cispa-incubator cispa_news_114 en 185 1554069600 During this year’s CISPA Young Researcher Security Convention (April 1-5, 2019), short SeCon 2019, 24 international students are visiting Saarbruecken to learn more about three hot topics in IT Security and work closely with CISPA researchers. The first day will be dedicated to Introductions and Networking. https://cispa.de/en/security-convention cispa_news_115 en 185 1551308400 CISPA Researchers Inken Hagestedt, Yang Zhang, Michael Backes, and Pascal Berrang won the “Distinguished Paper Award” at the Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2019) with their co-authors Mathias Humbert, Haixu Tang, and XiaoFeng Wang. https://cispa.de/en/distinguished-paper-award-ndss cispa_news_116 en 185 1550098800 Johannes Krupp, PhD student with Prof. Dr. Christian Rossow, was awarded the Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship. This is the first time after 5 years that the award, endowed with 20,000$, is conferred to a researcher in Europe. https://cispa.de/en/srl-graduate-fellowship cispa_news_117 en 185 1549321200 On February 5, 2019, the German Federal Minister for Education and Research, Anja Karliczek, visited the Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbruecken. CISPA Researchers presented five selected research projects with the aid of vivid demos. https://cispa.de/en/hiring-faculty cispa_news_122 en 185 1549321200 On February 5, 2019, numerous Researchers presented the central challenges that European Cybersecurity Research is planning to address within the next few years. In a formal ceremony in Brussels, the Roadmap “Cybersecurity Research: Challenges and Course of Action” was presented to the Director of ENISA, ... https://cispa.de/en/roadmap-cybersecurity cispa_news_127 en 185 1544742000 CISPA researcher Ninja Marnau commented on the “Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace”, an international agreement, in which the signatory states commit themselves, among other things, to comply with voluntary standards for the responsible handling of IT-security vulnerabilities during peacetime,... https://cispa.de/en/article-security-gap cispa_news_137 en 185 1543273200 Across the world, researchers collect patient data to develop novel treatments for widespread diseases such as dementia, strokes, or tumor diseases. This data is extracted from blood samples or x-ray images is combined from different sources to multimedia contents. https://cispa.de/en/helmholtz-medical-security-privacy cispa_news_138 en 185 1542841200 Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Backes has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for his contributions to computer security and privacy. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon researchers with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. https://cispa.de/en/michael-backes-ieee-fellow cispa_news_139 en 185 1542668400 CISPA Researcher Jilles Vreeken joined CISPA as a Faculty on October 1, 2018. In November, he already received two IEEE Awards. For his excellent scientific achievements, he received the IEEE ICDM 2018 Tao Li Award. Additionally, at the same venue, he and his co-authors Panagiotis Mandros und Mario Boley were awarded the Best Paper Award ... https://cispa.de/en/jilles-vreeken-ieee-icdm-award cispa_news_140 en 185 1541718000 On Friday, November 9, 2018, the President of Saarland University, Prof. Dr. Manfred Schmidt, and the Founding Director of the CISPA – Helmholtz Center i.G., Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Backes, signed a cooperation agreement specifying the collaboration between the two institutions from January 2019. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-saarland-university cispa_news_141 en 185 1540504800 In October, CISPA and LORIA in France organized a German-French PhD workshop. In total, 14 PhD students of CISPA and LORIA participated in the event. The two directors, Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Backes and Prof. Dr. Jean-Yves Marion opened the event presenting their joint vision on IT-Security and Privacy research. https://cispa.de/en/german-french-phd-workshop cispa_news_142 en 185 1539208800 In October, the Dutch King Willem-Alexander and his wife Quee Máxima visited Saarland University during his annual tour. CISPA’s Founding Director Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Backes welcomed the royal couple as a co-host. Every year, the couple travels to selected states. https://cispa.de/en/visit-dutch-royal-couple cispa_news_143 en 185 1539208800 In October, CISPA presented current research projects together with Symantec at Europe’s largest IT-Security fair it-sa. CISPA had started a collaboration with Symantec to set up a Symantec Research Lab in Saarbruecken and presented current projects and gave short talks offering insights into selected research topics. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-symantec cispa_news_144 en 185 1538431200 On October 1, 2018, Prof. Dr. Michael Backes, founding director of the CISPA – Helmholtz Center i.G., received the honoris causa doctorate by Université de Lorraine. https://cispa.de/en/michael-backes-honory-doctorate cispa_news_145 en 185 1536703200 On September 11, 2018 we received the official approval of the Helmholtz Association that we will become the 19th Helmholtz Center as of January 1, 2019 (then named “Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)”). The decision to accept us was taken by all existing Helmholtz Centers in the Mitgliederversammlung of the HGF on September 11, 2018 https://cispa.de/en/naming-cispa cispa_news_146 en 185 1536530400 Software systems are prone to attacks if users do not use them properly. This also applies to so-called cryptocurrencies, experts say. For the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, two computer scientists at the CISPA Helmholtz Center are now providing scientific proof. Over several months, they searched publicly available information for disclosed ... https://cispa.de/en/bitcoin cispa_news_147 en 185 1534197600 Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are increasingly attracting millions of users, but also cybercriminals, as a successful attack means maximum profit with little risk. This also applies to “ether,” the most widely used cryptocurrency after Bitcoin. https://cispa.de/en/second-largest-cryptocurrency-attack cispa_news_148 en 185 1528408800 The Internet has developed over time and is able to function because of the interplay between various services that are, in turn, operated by a range of different institutions. Frequently, IT security does not play a significant role and, as shown by the latest attacks, we are now paying the price. Institutions are becoming both victims... https://cispa.de/en/cebit-2018 cispa_news_149 en 185 1528408800 Professor Christian Rossow and his research group at the CISPA Helmholtz Center in Saarbrücken are researching attacks that strike fear not only in the hearts of companies, but of sovereign states too. https://cispa.de/en/cebit-2018-rossow cispa_news_150 en 185 1528408800 Studying IT security while simultaneously establishing a company is exactly what a new course at the IT research center of Saarland University, Saarbrücken, offers. Over four semesters, students develop an idea for a start-up in the area of IT security, from initial prototypes through to market maturity. https://cispa.de/en/cebit-2018-studying cispa_news_151 en 185 1528408800 According to statistics database Statista, some 3.76 million apps could be downloaded this month from the Google Play Store alone. Not all of them function as they should – and not all of them deliver what they promise. In 2017, Google deleted more than 700,000 apps for breaching guidelines. https://cispa.de/en/cebit-2018-how-apps-behave cispa_news_152 en 185 1528408800 To find an unlocked car it is often enough to test several doors of cars parked in a car park. Cybercriminals take a similar approach by indiscriminately sending a program strings of letters, figures and special characters, hoping to find a security bug. https://cispa.de/en/cebit-2018-intelligent-mass-testing cispa_news_153 en 185 1528408800 Every minute, users upload tens of thousands of images to the internet. In the case of online platform Facebook, this figure increases to over one hundred thousand. In doing so, users frequently reveal much more than intended. https://cispa.de/en/cebit-2018-artificial-intelligence cispa_news_154 en 185 1524780000 If software errors go undetected, this can not only reduce sales significantly. In the worst case, people die. Finding errors before launching the software also costs a lot of money. According to a study by Cambridge University, software developers spend half of their programming time finding and repairing bugs. https://cispa.de/en/andreas-zeller-acm-award cispa_news_128 en 185 1513119600 On December 13, 2017, the official founding documents were signed by Franziska Broer (Managing Director of the Helmholtz Association), Wolf-Dieter Lukas (German Federal Ministry for Education and Research), Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (Minister President of Saarland) and Michael Backes (Founding Director of the CISPA – Helmholtz Center i.G.). https://cispa.de/en/cispa-founded cispa_news_135 en 185 1508796000 The new Helmholtz Center for Information Security will be built on campus in close vicinity to the current research center for IT Security CISPA. This has been announced by the government of Saarland. https://cispa.de/en/cispa-campus cispa_news_136 en 185 1492034400 In her press conference on 15 March 2017, Minister-President of Saarland Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced that the Federal Government and Saarland are setting up a Helmholtz Center for IT Security in Saarbruecken in collaboration with the Helmholtz Association. https://cispa.de/en/largest-research-center