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
The ZISC center is excited to announce the ZISC Summit on Cyber Risks 2017 that will take place in June 26, 2017 at ETH Zürich. The event will feature keynote speakers and panel discussions. It addresses industry leaders and representatives from fields of information security and ICT, information security scientists and specialists, students of areas
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