Crypto Valley Labs at Zug is a gathering point for blockchain enthusiast, investors, developers, and researchers. Each month Crypto Valley Labs organizes meetings for people working in blockchain technology and business. This month Hubert Ritzdorf, a recent PhD graduate from ETH Zurich and the CTO of ChainSecurity, a ZISC spin-off company focusing on blockchain security,
IC3, an initiative of faculty members at Cornell University, Cornell Tech, UC Berkeley, UIUC, and the Technion, offers world-class expertise in computer science that spans cryptography, distributed systems, game theory, programming languages, and system security techniques. IC3’s innovations include new blockchains, smart contracts, and cryptocurrency technologies that offer both the scientifically rigorous security properties and
ZISC researchers Hubert Ritzdorf, Karl Wust, Arthur Gervais, Guillaume Felley, Srdjan Capkun have released TLS-N, an extension of TLS that enables the seamless integration of non-repudiation between arbitrary parties within TLS. TLS-N allows the generation of privacy-preserving, non-repudiable, non-interactive proofs for the contents of a TLS session. TLS-N provides a trusted data relay. Therefore, it
Open Systems is looking for an ETH Zurich intern to help rollout a global SD-WAN project with a US customer using security technologies such as VPN, Firewall, IDS/IPS and Proxy. The intern will be working with experienced engineers and project managers in New York City and surroundings. Open Systems is looking for a person with
Blockchain systems like Bitcoin are gaining increasing attention, but at the same time their security guarantees remain not well understood, due to the difficulty of precisely modeling their functionality and proving their security. In a recently published research paper, ZISC researcher Christian Badertscher and his colleagues present a new approach for creating proofs of security
ETH Zurich and ZISC hosted a session at the Zurich Digital Festival 2017. The goal of the session was to provide insights and a comprehensive overview to the newest trends, useful use cases and research in the field of Security Technologies. The session included an introduction by ETH President Lino Guzella, a research talks by
Recently, ZISC researchers demonstrated how the new hover (floating touch) technology, available in the latest Android smartphones, can be abused by any application running in background to record all touchscreen input system-wide. By using the newly discovered attack, a malicious application running on the system is able to profile user’s behavior, capture sensitive input such
With support from the Zurich Information Security Center (ZISC) at ETH, we have an open postdoctoral researcher position in our network security group, with guaranteed funding for up to five years. Our group mainly works on SCION, a secure Internet architecture. Besides researching how to design a highly secure Internet architecture, we also have a
Hacks and security risks of IT systems are gaining more and more media attention. Zurich-based newspaper Tages Anzeiger interviewed Prof. Capkun on the topic. In the interview Prof. Capkun discusses the security risks of cyber-physical systems, challenges of more security software and system design, recent speculation on manipulation of electronic voting results etc. The full
The ZISC Summit on Cyber Risks 2017 brought together more than 300 people from the research community, industry, students, media and general public on June 26 at ETH Zurich. The event included talks from renowned researchers, a session for ETH spin-off companies and a panel discussion on future internet. Here are some impressions from the