News 2015
Talks
4 December 2015, CAB H52
13:30h: Sonia Chiasson, Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada
Title: Designing for security: Users are not the weakest link
24 November 2015, CNB F110
11:00h: Michael Och, ETH semester thesis
Title: Resilient Android Impersonation Detection Using Runtime Visual Similarity
6 October 2015, CNB F110
10:30h: Patrick Leu, ETH Master's thesis
Title: Detection of Spoofing Attacks on Wireless Multilateration Systems
11:15h: Carl Olsson, ETH semester thesis
Title: Feasibility study of UAV based SDR-AoA Radio Transmitter Locating System
29 June 2015, CNB F110
13:30h: Aleksandros Filios, ETH semester project presentation
Title: Integrity protection for web applications: Exploring the Meteor framework
14:30h: Sinisa Matetic, A.T. Kearney
Title: Engineering device pairing with fuzzy cryptography (Commitment-based device-pairing protocol with synchronized drawings and comparison metrics)
12 June 2015, CNB F110, 14:30h
Stathakopoulou Chrysoula, ETH semester thesis
Title: Web Search Personalization
Ferran Llama, ETH semester thesis
Title: Bitmessage Security Analysis
20 May 2015, CNB F110, 13:00h
Fabian Zeindler, ETH master's thesis presentation
Title: Passive Collection and Analysis of SSL/TLS Connections and Certificates
13 May 2015, CNB F110, 14:30h
Apostolis Zarras, Ruhr-University Bochum
Title: Towards Detection and Prevention of Malicious Activities on the Internet
16 April 2015, HG E1.2, 18:00h
Event: Sichere ICT und Cloud aus der Schweiz: Fiktion oder Realität?
Srdjan Capkun: Wie können unterschiedliche Angriffsmodelle in der Cloud erfasst und bewertet werden?
2 February 2015, 12:00 in CNB F110
Alexandru Serbanescu, ETH master's thesis presentation
Title: Analysis of Adversarial Behaviour in Critical Infrastructures using Honeypots
16 January 2015, 10:00 – 16:10h
3rd ETH Risk Center Dialogue Event with Focus Session: Cyber Security, Targets within Reach?
ETH Zurich, HG F 3, moderated by Prof. David Basin, Institute of Information Security, the following keynote speakers will give lectures:
- Barry Pavel, Vice President and Director, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security - Atlantic Council
- Stefan Arn, Chief Information Officer, UBS Wealth Management
- Prof. Srdjan Capkun, System Security Group, ETH Zurich
Ph.D. examination
16 December 2015, Ph.D. examination of Claudio Marforio
at 14:00h in CAB G 52
Dissertation: Smartphone Security: New Applications and Challenges
16 September 2015, Ph.D. examination of Ramya Jayaram Masti
at 14:00h in HG D 22
Dissertation: Enabling Isolation on Modern Computing Platforms
Expansion of ZISC
ETH Zurich is expanding its Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC). A donation has been made by Zürcher Kantonalbank to the ETH Zurich Foundation specifically for this purpose. ZISC Director Srdjan Capkun, professor at the Institute of Information Security, aims to facilitate a significant increase in the number of researchers and young talents in the field of information security, which is why ETH-ZISC is planning to support talented researchers in the form of scholarships. Read more