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The Cluster of Excellence CASA has launched a new event to promote outstanding female students and scientists.

On Thursday, September 16, Professor Christof Paar received the City of Bochum's Ring of Honor for his commitment to IT security in Bochum.

First SecHuman Winter School of the second funding period - in cooperation with CASA - on the focus "Gender and Diversity in Cybersecurity Research"…

For the first time since 1985, the RUB is founding a new faculty. As a focus of study and research, computer science is thus given a special status.

Since 2017, the European Competence Center for IT Security (eurobits e.V.), based in Bochum, Germany, has presented the annual eurobits Excellence…

Professor Amir Moradi from the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security set a record in the history of the CHES conference.

Popular unlocking patterns are often in the shape of a letter – and are easy to guess. A bad thing if someone loses their mobile phone and it ends up…

For data protection reasons, the messaging app Signal is becoming ever more important. Unlike WhatsApp, the Signal app asks you to create a PIN during…

With an interdisciplinary team, the new advisory board strengthens the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).

From September 21-23, the CASA Cluster of Excellence will host the first-ever "Women in Security and Cryptography WISC" international workshop.

The Entrepreneurship Explorer Ruhr 2021 offers international and entrepreneurial-minded early career researchers in cyber security the possibility to…

Now the researcher has been admitted to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.

Max Hoffmann has been awarded the Gebrüder Eickhoff Prize for his doctoral thesis.

Logging into an online shop without a password, using only the fingerprint? In this situation, it’s not surprising that users have the impression that…

Bochum-based startup Edgeless Systems raises a €1.45 million seed round from Acequia Capital (US), Inventures (DE), SIX Group AG (CH), Venture Creator…

Topic: "Building Secure Key Exchange Protocols From Passwords".

A research team has discovered a security gap in modern mobile phones that is very unlikely to have been created by accident. In fact, it should have…

Cordial invitation to the next ITS regulars' table on Thursday, July 1 at 6 pm.

Services like Google collect a lot of data about their users. Anyone can see the information that is stored about them. But that doesn’t scare users…

Filming for the ARD documentary also took place at HGI.

An interview with Christine Skropke, Head of Public Affairs at secunet AG and Chairwoman of the Board of eurobits e.V. - European Competence Center…

Topic: "Usable Verifiable Electronic Voting".

A special feature in PDF documents makes it possible for two contractual parties to sign them digitally one after the other. However, the second party…

The submission SPARKLE - with HGI participation - has reached the final round.

From September 21-23, the Cluster of Excellence CASA will host the first international "Women in Security and Cryptography Workshop (WISC)".

Topic: "On the Security of (UWB) Distance Measurement".

Funding for guest stays of international scientists at RUB to jointly explore the transfer potential of research in various exchange formats.

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Holz explains why data protection and pandemic control are not mutually exclusive.

Three years ago, a new, groundbreaking endowed professorship was launched at the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security, which has generated great…

Cordial invitation to the next ITS regulars' table on Thursday, May 6 at 6 pm.