The ZISC spin-off company Futurae has won all three stages of Swiss Venture Kick final and secured 130’000 CHF of financing. Futurae is a Zurich-based IT security company with a focus on novel authentication solutions. The team is pictured below. Futurae provides a suite of authentication solutions, including the novel Sound-Proof technology, originally invented at
ZISC researchers Sinisa Matetic, Kari Kostiainen, David Sommer, Aritra Dhar and Prof. Srdjan Capkun were nominated as TOP 5 finalist in the ETH Spark Award 2017 for their work on rollback protection in hardware-based security architectures and its applications to more secure financial transactions and services. The Spark Award is an annual ceremony that recognizes
ZISC researchers Daniel Moser, Aanjhan Ranganathan and Prof. Srdjan Capkun have received a Cyber Award 2016 from the Swiss Federal Department of Defense on their research work on location spoofing and countermeasures on air traffic control. The researcher results were published at the MobiCom’16 conference in October 2016. The research paper “Investigation of Multi-device Location
Prof. Capkun gave an invited talk at the Android Security Symposium 2017 that was held in Vienna, Austria this year. In this talk, Prof. Capkun reviewed the security challenges of current navigation and positioning systems. “In this talk I will review security issues in today’s navigation and close-range positioning systems. I will discuss why GNS
The research group of Prof. Capkun has demonstrated that the wireless proximity-based entry systems widely used in modern cars are vulnerable to so called relay attacks. In a relay attack, the adversary relays signals to the wireless opening device that is expected to by in near proximity of the car, but actually resides a long
ZISC hosts the OAuth Security Workshop 2017, organized by the IETF OAuth working group, with the goal of improving security of OAuth and related protocols. OAuth is a critical component of the Internet infrastructure. OAuth enables the user to authorize a third-party application or service to obtain limited access to any service or account owned
ZISC alumni Boris Danev and his company 3DB Technologies are featured in a Wired article that introduces exciting individuals and groups bringing about the next wave of digital security. “Convenience often comes at a security cost, as Boris Danev knows all too well. In 2010, while a Phd student at ETH Zurich, Danev discovered the
Dr. Raphael Reischuk, senior researcher at the ZISC, has been awarded the INRIA-CNIL Award for Privacy Protection for the paper ADSNARK: Nearly Practical and Privacy-Preserving Proofs on Authenticated Data published at the IEEE Conference on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2015. Please find more information here.
ZISC researcher Aanjhan Ranganathan was awarded the ETH medal for his PhD thesis titled “Physical-layer Techniques for Secure Proximity Verification & Localization”. Today, we live in a physical world where location and proximity information are ubiquitously used in a wide variety of systems. For example, contactless access tokens that use proximity information are prevalent today
Cryptocurrencies are attracting increasing media attention. Currencies, such as Bitcoin, provide many new opportunities, but such systems do not come without risks. Prof. Capkun, the Director of ZISC center, was interviewed by the Swiss national television (SRF) regarding anonymity in Bitcoin and similar blockchain currencies. See the video clip below (in German):