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
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