CSAW (Cyber Security Awareness Week) is the world's largest academic cybersecurity competition with 12 cyber competitions, workshops and industry events. Organized by Grenoble INP – Esisar, the European flagship - CSAW'22 Europe - now took place in Valence, France, from November 9 to 12. The four competitions held were: Applied Research Competition, Capture the Flag, Embedded Security Challenge and Red Team Competition.
In the category "Applied Research" two PhDs from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) were very successful:
- Moritz Schlögel from the Chair of System Security achieved 3rd place, with
Loki: Hardening Code Obfuscation Against Automated Attacks
Authors: Moritz Schloegel, Tim Blazytko, Moritz Contag, Cornelius Aschermann, Julius Basler, Ali Abbasi, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Thorsten Holz, CISPA - Simon Rohlmann from the Chair of Network and Data Security was awarded 2nd place, for
Oops... Code Execution and Content Spoofing: The First Comprehensive Analysis of OpenDocument Signatures
Authors: Simon Rohlmann, Christian Mainka, Vladislav Mladenov, Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
The ten pre-selected finalists were invited by Grenoble INP - Esisar to Valence, France for a poster session on November 10, 2022 at CSAW'22 Europe to present their scientific work to a panel of experts. At the award ceremony on the evening of November 10, two Bochum research teams ended up in the top 3 of the European research competition of the CSAW conferences.
Both papers were published for the first time this year at the renowned USENIX Security Conference in Boston, USA. The papers and related presentations can be viewed here:
- Loki: Hardening Code Obfuscation Against Automated Attacks
- Oops... Code Execution and Content Spoofing: The First Comprehensive Analysis of OpenDocument Signatures
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