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
New information technologies emerge at rapid pace and innovations in the area of ICT have significant impacts on our social, political and economic lives. The ongoing and expected changes offer great opportunities to societies and economies, but they also bear risks. To counter risks in the constantly evolving ICT landscape, a thorough understanding of the
ETH President Lino Guzzella was interviewed by ETH News regarding digitalization and security risks. Lino Guzzella commented on recent high-profile cyber attacks and the role of ETH Zurich and the ZISC center in developing a safer internet and society. If you think about the interference in the run-up to the French elections or the recent
On June 15-16, the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialog will organize an expert workshop on risks and benefits of distributed ledger technologies. “This workshop will contribute a risk governance perspective to exploring the opportunities that distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) potentially bring to how transactions are recorded and services are delivered. The workshop will primarily
SCION is the first clean-slate Internet architecture designed to provide route control, failure isolation, and explicit trust information for end-to-end communications. SCION organizes existing ASes into groups of independent routing sub-planes, called isolation domains, which then interconnect to form complete routes. As a result, the SCION architecture provides strong resilience and security properties as an
The ZISC center supports two interesting summers schools this year. The Summer School on Real-World Crypto and Privacy is organized in Sibenik, Croatia in June 5-9. The summer school is jointly organized by the Digital Security (DiS) group, Radboud University (The Netherlands), COSIC group, KU Leuven (Belgium), the ZISC center, and Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Prof. Capkun gave invited talk at ASIACCS 2017 conference that was organized at Abu Dhabi, UAE in April this year. ASIACCS in a premier computer security conference and the talk titled “CoverUp: Privacy Through “Forced” Participation in Anonymous Communication Networks” focused on new techniques for private communication. “The privacy guarantees of anonymous communication networks (ACNs)
ETH Zurich and its Computer Science department are constantly ranked among the top universities worldwide. In this setting, ZISC has become a leading research center for security and privacy topics. At ZISC, we believe that a fundamental pillar to research is not only attracting the best locally, but also engaging in active collaborations with other
Vincent Lenders (armasuisse science and technology), Pavlos Lamprakis, Ruggiero Dargenio, David Gugelmann, Markus Happe and Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zurich) developed a novel approach for the identification of targeted cyber attacks. Their approach supports the national strategy for Switzerland’s protection against cyber risks (NCS). Cyber attacks targeting sensitive information are an increasing threat to governmental administrations