UbiCrypt Summer School 2013 - Apply now!
17.05.2013 - Britta Scherer
The UbiCrypt Summer School "Reverse Engineering" offers graduate students and young researchers the opportunity to ...
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DHL Innovation Award 2013
26.04.2013 - Britta Scherer
The encryption method PRESENT is the smallest cipher for cost and energy constrained applications. It ...
HackPra Allstars on OWASP Research 2013 Conference
08.04.2013 - Britta Scherer
The HackPra Allstars is a dedicated invited speakers track at the OWASP Research 2013 conference ...
Post-Doc DFG Research Training Group
22.03.2013 - Britta Scherer
The Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at Ruhr-University Bochum is one of Europe’s leading ...
Analyzing system “VMMInspector” awarded by Economics Ministry
13.03.2013 - Britta Scherer
Ralf Hund and Carsten Willems from the Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) won the ...
The 1st escar USA 2013 - Embedded Security in Cars
06.03.2013 - Britta Scherer
The first escar USA workshop will be held May 29-30, 2013 in the Metro Detroit ...
SensMark
25.02.2013 - Britta Scherer
Inertial sensors in smartphones are used by many mobile applications, they can also be used ...
CCC-Talk: Milking the Digital Cash Cow
03.01.2013 - Britta Scherer
Contactless smartcards have become widespread for applications such as ticketing, access control, identification and payments. ...
Merry Christmas
23.12.2012 - Britta Scherer
We wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Open Post Doc Position
19.11.2012 - Britta Scherer
The Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at Ruhr-University Bochum is looking for candidates with ...
Young Promising Scientist? - Open Ph.D. Positions
14.11.2012 - Britta Scherer
The Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at Ruhr-University Bochum is one of Europe’s leading ...
Dobbertin Challenge 2012
17.10.2012 - Britta Scherer
Hans Dobbertin was the founding director of the HGI and full professor at HGI's Chair ...
Researchers from HGI break Implementations of Industry Standard for Identification
17.08.2012 - Britta Scherer
Web shops, Cloud Computing, Online CRM systems: Each day many IT systems require the user ...
ECRYPT Summer School
26.07.2012 - Britta Scherer
From Sep, 3 to Sep 7 2012 the ECRYPT Summer School on the Challenges in ...
W1 -JUNIORPROFESSORSHIP FOR SECURITY ENGINEERING
15.06.2012 - Britta Scherer
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum invites applications for ...
IEEE Security & Privacy Best Paper Award is granted to HGI
30.05.2012 - Britta Scherer
The Paper “Don’t trust Satellite Phones: A Security Analysis of Two Satphone Standards” of the ...
Eike Kiltz is in the editorial board of the JoC
09.03.2012 - Britta Scherer
The Journal of Cryptology is a publication of the International Association for Cryptologic Research and ...
Encryption Method by HGI is Becoming International Standard
21.02.2012 - Britta Scherer
An increasing number of everyday devices such as car keys, smart phones and even medical ...
Satellite telephony is unsafe
09.02.2012 - Britta Scherer
Satellite telephony was thought to be secure against eavesdropping. Researchers at the Horst Görtz Institute ...
User Awareness in Android
17.01.2012 - Eva Kolb
You can download a free Android "App Permission Watcher" to monitor the permissions needed by ...
HGI researcher reveals new threat in Mozilla products
17.01.2012 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
Mario Heidrich from the Horst Görtz Institute has found a new type of vulnerability in ...
High-bandwith Digital Content Protection HDCP cracked
19.12.2011 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
For more than a decade, High-bandwith Digital Content Protection (HDCP) was common in media industry ...
More security for the “cloud”: New Graduate School at the HGI
17.11.2011 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
Major success for the Ruhr-University as well as for the Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security ...
Massive security flaws at Amazon Web Services
24.10.2011 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
A massive security lack for the XML encryption of Amazon’s Cloud Services has been detected ...
Researchers hack crypto on RFID smart cards
13.10.2011 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
Professor Christof Paar and David Oswald, both members of the Horst Görtz Insitute, managed to ...
Encryption for FPGA-Chips broken
15.08.2011 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
A team lead by Professor Christof Paar of the Chair of Embedded Security (EMSEC) has ...
HGI at ARD-Exclusiv
15.08.2011 - Eva Kolb
In response to current hacking attacks ARD reports on criminal activities in the internet. Nevertheless, ...
Team FluxFingers attained first place at Capture the Flag (CTF)
13.07.2011 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
At this year's international contest "Capture-The-Flag" (CTF) the team of the Ruhr-University Bochum, the so-called ...
CryptArchi 2011 in Bochum
15.06.2011 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
From 15 - 18 June the Horst Görtz Institute is organizing the CryptArchi 2011 at ...
Cloud Computing remains controversial
01.06.2011 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
Private cloud providers face serious security issues as shown by Professor Jörg Schwenk and further ...
SkIDentity: Project securing identity in the Cloud
22.03.2011 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
Together with partners from industry, research members of the Horst Görtz Institute from the department ...
Google to take over eurobits-partner zynamics
22.03.2011 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
It was within his blog that Thomas Dullien, former graduate from IT-Security studies in Bochum, ...
Tim Güneysu newly appointed Juniorprofessor at the HGI
28.02.2011 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
By accepting a Juniorprofessorship, Tim Güneysu has become member of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering ...
HGI members successful at Eurocrypt 2011
28.01.2011 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
This year again the Horst Görtz Institute shows strong presence at the world wide largest ...
Jun. Prof. Thorsten Holz: "The Good" winner of the Cisco Cybercrime Showcase
24.01.2011 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
In this year’s Annual Security Report, Cisco gave out a virtual award for the “Fight ...
RUB team wins Deutsche Post Security Cup
31.12.2010 - Eva Kolb
On 28th December the winners of the Deutsche Post Security Cup were awarded in a ...
Second Place for Fluxfingers at RUCTFE 2010
23.12.2010 - Eva Kolb
The capture-the-flag team "Fluxfingers" reached the second place in the web challenge RUCTFE 2010. 56 ...
HGI among the front runners at the 3. German IT-Security Prize Awards
29.11.2010 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
As an extremely small but at the same time secure chiffre, PRESENT convinced the jury ...
Professor Paar nominated IEEE Fellow
29.11.2010 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
Prof. Dr. Christof Paar has been conferred the IEEE Grade of Fellow for his extraordinary ...
Prof. Dr. Eike Kiltz to receive Sofja-Kovalevskaja-Prize
11.11.2010 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
On 9 November 2010 the mathematician Prof. Dr. Eike Kiltz has received the Sofja-Kovalevskaja-Prize awarded ...
HGI project “Beat the worms” awarded by BMBF with 1,9 million Euros
19.10.2010 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
Five projects of researchers of the Horst Görtz Institute submitted within the programme “Beat the ...
Third PLace for the "Fluxfingers" at RootedCON '2010 CTF Competition
29.09.2010 - Eva Kolb
The capture-the-flag team "Fluxfingers" reached the third place in the web challenge RootedCON '2010 CTF. ...
Recipient of Sofja Kovalevskaja price returns as HGI Professor
22.09.2010 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
The Horst Görtz Institute is proud to announce that Prof. Dr. Eike Kiltz has accepted ...
W3 Chair for System Security (formerly Ahmad Sadeghi)
25.08.2010 - Eva Kolb
The position of Chair of System Security (formerly Prof. Ahmad Sadeghi) has become vacant. It ...
HGI participates in BMBF project: RESIST
09.08.2010 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
The Chair of Embedded Security and escrypt GmbH are participating in the research project “RESIST” ...
New Managing Director at the Horst Görtz Institute
08.07.2010 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
During the last assembly of the board of directors Prof. Dr. Christof Paar has been ...
Successful Job Fair 2010
01.07.2010 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
This year’s Job Fair 2010 - with 26 renowned companies the biggest so far - ...
Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) for Secure Hardware
17.05.2010 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering & Information Sciences of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum is seeking to ...
New Scientific Coordinator appointed at HGI
17.05.2010 - Yvonne Roehrle-Schetz
Ms Dipl.-Math. Anja Nuss has been appointed to Scientific Coordinator of the Horst Görtz Institute ...
Johannes Dahse alias "Fluxreiners" second at "SecurityByDefault CT"
11.05.2010 - Eva Kolb
„Campus Party“ is considered one of the biggest events for technology, creativity and digital culture ...