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CASA Cluster of Excellence Receives Funding for Another Seven Years

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 Prof. Dr. Lucas Davi, Director of paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology.

New Publication at ISSTA: Wemby Discovers Security Vulnerabilities in WebAssembly

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.

Dies Academicus for Pascal Winkler

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

Seminar and Bachelor Project Winter Term 24/25

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First Successful Doctorates

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

New paluno Directorate Elected

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.

Lehrveranstaltungen im Wintersemester 2023/2024

Im kommenden Semester wird unsere Arbeitsgruppe verschiedene Veranstaltungen in den Bachelor und Master Studiengängen anbieten.

CSAW'23: Two finalist papers

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.

New publication in ACM CCS: FuzzDelSol uncovers security vulnerabilities in Solana programs.

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 Contracts that accurately models platform and contract interactions.