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04 april 2022
14th International IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics & Security
On the behalf of Organizing Committee, it is our great pleasure to invite you to the 14th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) 2022 that will be held 12th -16th December 2022 in Shanghai, China.
08 maart 2022
CYS group co-organises SecureComm2022
The Cybersecurity Group at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science will organise the 18th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm2022) with the University of Kansas, U.S. SecureComm is a conference in EAI core conference portfolio focusing on cybersecurity.
15 december 2021
Dr. Zeki Erkin elected as vice-chair for IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee
Dr. Zeki Erkin is elected as vice-chair for IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee as of January 1st, 2022. IEEE IFS TC is responsible for promoting activities the board technical areas of information forensics and security.
25 november 2021
Mauro Conti elevated to IEEE Fellow
Recognizing his achievements the IEEE Fellow Committee has elevated Mauro Conti to IEEE Fellow with the following citation: - for contributions to communications network security
24 november 2021
Hand Me Your PIN! Inferring ATM PINs of Users Typing with a Covered Hand
Dr. Stjepan Picek, Prof. Mauro Conti, and their colleagues from the University of Padova published a work where they investigated the security of the PIN mechanism for ATMs. They showed that even if a user covers the typing hand with the other hand, a deep learning-based attack can infer the correct PIN.
21 oktober 2021
Dieuwke van den Ende wins the Joop Bautz Information Security Award 2021
Dieuwke van den Ende, who conducted a major degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, won the Joop Bautz Information Security Award for 2021.
20 september 2021
Just around the corner: the privacy-preserving future
Zeki Erkin was recently interviewed by Leiden-Delft-Erasmus. For him, privacy is a human right that needs to be respected. That is why he shapes his research around secure data sharing and processing by means of encryption.
06 september 2021
Keynote speech Zeki Erkin at BRAIN 2021
Dr. Zeki Erkin gave a keynote speech during the 2nd Workshop on Blockchain Theory and Applications, BRAIN, 2021 on September the 5th.
26 augustus 2021
#SIGCOMM 2021 Best paper: "Seven years in the life of Hypergiants' off-nets"
Prof. Georgios Smaragdakis (Cybersecurity group) and colleagues from UCL, Microsoft, Columbia University, and FORTH were awarded the Best paper award in ACM SIGCOMM 2021 for their paper: "Seven Years in the Life of Supergiants' off-nets." SIGCOMM is the ACM flagship conference in Internet Architecture and Networking.
09 maart 2021
New EU's Horizon 2020 grant
We are pleased to announce that the project "artificial Intelligence threat Reporting and Incident response System” (IRIS) has been recently granted under the EU's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.