Ghassan Karame

AsiaCCS'27 Program Committee Member Nomination AsiaCCS 2027 will be held July 12–16, 2027, in Macau, China. The Program Committee Chairs are Nils Ole Tippenhauer (CISPA) and Neil Gong (Duke University). As in AsiaCCS 2026, the conference will fea...

Happy to co-chair the track on Applied Crypto, Blockchain and Distrubuted Systems with Cheng Hong at AsiaCCS27. PC nominations now open at: docs.google.com/forms/d/1eN3...

Congrats to the new and extended clusters of excellence, Bochum, Dresden, Hamburg, Darmstadt keep on rocking!

Weiße Schrift auf rosa Hintergrund: "Millionenförderung für unsere Exzellenzcluster!"

Millionenförderung für unsere Exzellenzcluster! 🎉 Wir gratulieren den Forschenden der Cluster CASA und @solvationsci.bsky.social zu ihrem verdienten Erfolg.

Haven't seen this on Bluesky yet: S&P 2027 will take place in Montreal, Canada!

Updated version v0.9.5 of our book now available at tamarin-prover.com/book/ , with a range of improvements and exercises at the end.

CASA Stories: Ghassan Karame on Life and Work within Bochum's Cybersecurity Research Community YouTube video by CASA - Cluster of Excellence for Cyber Security

It’s hard to believe it’s been over three years since I joined RUB @ruhr-uni-bochum.de ! Time really flies. Bochum has an incredibly vibrant and excellent cybersecurity research community.

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The 3rd edition of WISC – Women in Security and Cryptography Workshop will take place in Bochum from June 16 to 18. Already confirmed are talks by Lejla Batina, Zinaida Benenson, Shafi Goldwasser, Martina Lindorfer, and Doreen Riepel. Registration is open now! casa.rub.de/en/events/wi...

Please share: our security & privacy research unit @informatics.tuwien.ac.at @tuwien.at is looking for a project manager for support in all kinds of funding matters! Call is open until March 20, and afaik terms are flexible. Reach out if you have any questions! jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/248232?c...

Folks: remember that your iMessages (and text messages) are typically backed up to Apple as part of your iCloud backup. If you don’t have Advanced Data Protection turned on, those may be readable by Apple, governments with warrants, and anyone who hacks Apple.

More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals Publishing highly cited papers helps postdoctoral researchers to land a faculty job.

More than 40 percent of #postdocs leave academia. Those who landed a coveted faculty position were more likely to have had a highly cited paper, changed their research topic between their #PhD and postdoc, or moved abroad after receiving their doctorate. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @pnas.org

Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking Millions of Cars Now-fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access at least a year of cars’ location histories—and Subaru employees still ca...

Security flaws in a Subaru web portal let hackers unlock, start ignition or access a year of detailed location history for millions of cars.

The flaws are now patched. But they revealed powerful tracking abilities that Subaru employees can still access. www.wired.com/story/subaru...

Foto von NRW-Ministerpräsident Hendrik Wüst. Darauf steht ein Zitat: "Bochum hat sich in den vergangenen 20 Jahren zu einem Hotspot der IT-Sicherheitsforschung entwickelt."

#DeepFakes und Manipulationen gezielt erkennen: An der #RuhrUniBochum hat sich Ministerpräsident Hendrik Wüst über einen der weltweit führenden Forschungsstandorte zur #Cybersicherheit informiert – und bei Live-Demonstrationen selbst Hand angelegt.
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