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):
On Tuesday December 20 we celebrated the official launch of the ZISC OpenLab together with our industry partners. Below you find a few impressions from the opening event.
Three ETH Zurich researchers have received ERC Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). Their projects will each receive approximately 2 million Swiss francs in funding. Prof. Capkun, the director of the ZISC center, is one of the recipients of this prestigious research grant. Cyber-physical systems like autonomous cars and drones use in order
We are very excited to announce that Swiss Post has signed a research partnership agreement with the ZISC center! Data protection, security and reliability are essential for Swiss Post’s digital future. From voting envelopes to e-voting, from medical records to eHealth, from piles of mail on the kitchen table to E-Post Office. To bring the
Prof. Adrian Perrig has been named a Fellow of ACM. ZISC congratulates Prof. Perrig on this great achievement! Further information about the 2016 ACM Fellows is available at http://awards.acm.org/. From a related press release (December 8, 2016): ACM, the world’s leading computing society, has named 53 of its members as ACM Fellows for major contributions