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Professor Amir Moradi from the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security set a record in the history of the CHES conference.

Since 2017, the European Competence Center for IT Security (eurobits e.V.), based in Bochum, Germany, has presented the annual eurobits Excellence Award to students who have written outstanding theses…

Popular unlocking patterns are often in the shape of a letter – and are easy to guess. A bad thing if someone loses their mobile phone and it ends up in the wrong hands.

For data protection reasons, the messaging app Signal is becoming ever more important. Unlike WhatsApp, the Signal app asks you to create a PIN during setup. But why?

With an interdisciplinary team, the new advisory board strengthens the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).

From September 21-23, the CASA Cluster of Excellence will host the first-ever "Women in Security and Cryptography WISC" international workshop.

Now the researcher has been admitted to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.

Logging into an online shop without a password, using only the fingerprint? In this situation, it’s not surprising that users have the impression that their biometric data is transmitted to the…

A research team has discovered a security gap in modern mobile phones that is very unlikely to have been created by accident. In fact, it should have been removed back in 2013.

Topic: "Building Secure Key Exchange Protocols From Passwords".

Cordial invitation to the next ITS regulars' table on Thursday, July 1 at 6 pm.

Google's data collection becomes visible in My Activity.

Services like Google collect a lot of data about their users. Anyone can see the information that is stored about them. But that doesn’t scare users away. On the contrary.

Filming for the ARD documentary also took place at HGI.

A special feature in PDF documents makes it possible for two contractual parties to sign them digitally one after the other. However, the second party can also change the content of the contract…

From September 21-23, the Cluster of Excellence CASA will host the first international "Women in Security and Cryptography Workshop (WISC)".

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Holz explains why data protection and pandemic control are not mutually exclusive.

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Successful Record of the RUB at IT Security Conference CHES 2021

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Register for International Workshop Until July 16

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A backdoor in mobile phone encryption from the 90s still exists

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Next ITS regulars' table for women* on July 1

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International workshop for female PhD students and outstanding students

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