The new protection system, called Brigade, enables automated monitoring and detection of malicious transactions in blockchain platforms that rely on so-called cross-chain bridges and protocols.

There is great excitement among cybersecurity researchers in Germany’s Ruhr area: Yesterday, the German Excellence Commission approved the extension of the CASA Cluster of Excellence. Among the Principal Investigators (PIs) is...

WebAssembly is bringing more and more applications to the internet. However, many web apps that use WebAssembly have vulnerabilities. We have investigated the risks to users and developed an analysis tool to make these apps safer....

Our research assistant Pascal Winkler has received the Dies Academicus Award for his master’s thesis. Congratulations!

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Our two long-standing research associates, Michael Rodler and Sebastian Surminski, have completed their PhD (Dr. rer. nat.). Congratulations!

In yesterday's meeting of the paluno board, Prof. Dr. Lucas Davi was appointed as the new director. of the institute. Prof. Dr. Amr Rizk and Prof. Dr. Gregor Schiele have been appointed as vice directors.

Im kommenden Semester wird unsere Arbeitsgruppe verschiedene Veranstaltungen in den Bachelor und Master Studiengängen anbieten. Im Bachelor bieten wir die neue Vorlesung, Application Management an. Diese Vorlesung wird die...

Two papers of our chair advanced to the final round of the NYU Tandon College of Engineering's annual Cyber Security Awareness Week Applied Research Competition. The two works were admitted to the selection of ten finalists: R...

In the upcoming November, we will present our research paper Fuzz on the Beach: Fuzzing Solana Smart Contracts at the prestigious ACM CCS conference. This work introduces FuzzDelSol, the first fuzzing architecture for Solana Smart...

Im kommenden Semester wird unsere Arbeitsgruppe verschiedene Veranstaltungen in den Bachelor und Master Studiengängen anbieten. Im Bachelor Pflichtbereich werden die Vorlesungen Cybersicherheit und Concurrency angeboten. Dabei ist...

Smart speakers like Amazon Alexa can be controlled by users via voice commands and are very popular. However, these devices have to listen all the time via microphone whether they are being addressed. And how can you be sure that...