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Frau vor digitaler Wand

Die Studie wurde auf dem 34. USENIX Security Symposium (Seattle, 13.–15. August 2025) veröffentlicht und untersucht, wie Menschen weltweit digitale…

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Julia Weiler

The newly appointed professor at Ruhr University Bochum is conducting research into efficient solutions for cryptocurrency blockchain technology, for…

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Expert in post-quantum cryptography joins the faculty

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The most innovative cybersecurity solutions will be awarded prize money totaling €130,000.

Submissions are open until January 15, 2026.

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The Horst Görtz Institute is looking for a Lead Transfer Manager (m/f/d) and a Technology and Transfer Manager (m/f/d) for the Cube 5 start-up…

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Julia Weiler, RUB

The new method is efficient, fast and inexpensive. This means that it could help moderators in the fight against disinformation on Telegram.

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Celebrate IT! Ceremony on May 10, 2023

On May 10, 2023, we celebrated the 20-year anniversary of the HGI and the foundation of the Faculty of Computer Science at Ruhr University Bochum.

Speakers include Mona Neubaur, Deputy Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Minister for Economics, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy, and the investigative journalist Svea Eckert (NDR/Tagesschau).

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CASA Distinguished Lectures

In our CASA Distinguished Lectures, we welcome selected international and national scientists at the HGI. The lectures of these influential and pioneering guest speakers, usually lasting one hour, are always followed by a discussion with the participants. Our goal is to encourage discussions and open up new perspectives within the field of cybersecurity research.

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ITS.Connect

We have enjoyed tremendous success over the past ten years in organising the ITS.Connect careers fair, the only Germany-wide event that connects attractive employers with highly qualified IT security graduates. In addition to providing an opportunity for personal exchange amongst companies, public authorities, other organisations and students, the ITS.Connect offers visitors a multifaceted programme of events focused on finding jobs in the industry and career development and planning. The ITS.Connect has grown steadily since its first year in 2008.

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Backgrounds for video conferences

Video conferencing has become part of everyday work, also at our institute. Our HGI backgrounds can be integrated into many video conferencing tools.

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You are welcome to download our logo here if you want to report about the HGI. For further graphical material please contact us at hgi-presse(at)rub.de

Gendersensible Sprache

The HGI attaches great importance to equal opportunites. Outstanding science can only arise in an open culture and a way of thinking that goes beyond the boundaries of gender assignments. This is not only expressed in funding measures and collegial cooperation, but also in the way we communicate.

Within the HGI we have thus agreed on various linguistic techniques to enable gender-sensitive communication.

The Genderstar

To express the diversity of the sexes in language use, we use the so-called "gender star". This asterisk is located between the (german) feminine and masculine gender of the word. It is a symbolic placeholder for diverse and open gender.

Sometimes, however, we use explicit gender attributes, for example when it comes to the concrete fundings of women. We always imply in these cases everyone who consider themselves belonging to that gender, regardless of their biological sex.

In some places, we mark this with a standard formulation among our contributions.