UbiCrypt Summer School 2013 - Apply now!
17.05.2013 - Britta Scherer
The UbiCrypt Summer School "Reverse Engineering" offers graduate students and young researchers the opportunity to learn more about binary analysis and malware reverse engineering. In cooperation with SysSec Network of Excellence, we offer fascinating topics and hands-on experiences in this emerging field. A special event is planned for Wednesday (July 24): the SysSec Network of Excellence organizes a workshop focused on system security research, to consolidate the Systems Security research community in Europe. Apply now!
DHL Innovation Award 2013
26.04.2013 - Britta Scherer
The encryption method PRESENT is the smallest cipher for cost and energy constrained applications. It is the result of a collaboration between the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany), Orange Labs France and the Technical University of Denmark. The cipher design is characterized by its hardware efficiency which makes it even applicable in health insurance cards or RFID-labels (substitute for bar codes). Because the cipher combines low costs with a particularly high level of security it became an international standard. Now DHL honored Prof. Gregor Leander, Prof. Christof Paar and Prof. Axel Poschmann for jointly developing the crypto algorithm PRESENT.
HackPra Allstars on OWASP Research 2013 Conference
08.04.2013 - Britta Scherer
The HackPra Allstars is a dedicated invited speakers track at the OWASP Research 2013 conference on August 22. HackPra Allstars is delivering in one full day what the legendary HackPra at the Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security does in one semester! HackPra Allstars will present the finest, hand selected talks from prolific speakers and top-tier researchers in the field of web-security. A conference inside a conference — offering you one day with the most interesting influencers in today’s web application security and in-security. The track will be open to all regular attendees of the main conference.
Post-Doc DFG Research Training Group
22.03.2013 - Britta Scherer
The Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at Ruhr-University Bochum is one of Europe’s leading research centers in IT security. The DFG, or German Research Foundation, awarded more than €4 million to the HGI for the establishment of the interdisciplinary research training group “New Challenges for Cryptography in Ubiquitous Computing”. We are looking for candidates with an outstanding Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics or a related area.
Analyzing system “VMMInspector” awarded by Economics Ministry
13.03.2013 - Britta Scherer
Ralf Hund and Carsten Willems from the Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) won the “Founder Award IKT- innovative” of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. The price with a value of 30.000 Euro was awarded by the Federal Minister Rösler at the CeBIT 2013 in Hannover, Germany.