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Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a smartphone app that can be used to check the authenticity of documents and other items. Extracts from the debt enforcement register of the City of Zurich are being made forgery-​proof as part of a pilot project.

Warfare is increasingly spreading to the realm of cyberspace. In response, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) wants to protect its digital infrastructure and that of humanitarian organisations with a digital emblem. The Information Security Group from the Department of Computer Science has developed a standard for this along with initial pilots.

Xenia Hofmeier attended high school in Basel before coming to ETH Zurich to study computer science. Now in her second year of a doctorate in the Information Security Group of Professor David Basin, she is learning to manage her workload and time between teaching and research, and between short and long-term assignments

The International Committee of the Red Cross aims to create a digital emblem to distinguish the computer systems of medical and humanitarian facilites and to protect them from cyberwarfare. The Center for Cyber Trust, which includes three D-INFK research groups, is developing the necessary technologies.

Cookie consent banners only appear to give users control over their data. Researchers from the Information Security Group have developed a browser extension that uses machine learning to recognise and block unnecessary cookies.

The alternative internet SCION, invented and developed at ETH Zurich by Adrian Perrig, provides fast, secure and reliable connections for data transfer. It is now available to any ETH lecturers, researchers or employees with special security, performance or reliability requirements.

Prof. David Basin, Dr. Jorge Toro Pozo and Dr. Ralf Sasse from the Information Security Group receive the IEEE Best Practical Paper Award for their publication "The EMV Standard: Break, Fix, Verify".

After finding a vulnerability in certain credit cards for the first time last year, three researchers in the Information Security Group at ETH Zurich were now able to outsmart the PIN codes for other payment cards, namely Mastercard and Maestro.

At the end of his two-year term as Head of the Department of Computer Science, Professor David Basin looks back on a turbulent time and explains how running a department has helped him better understand the inner workings of ETH Zurich.

David Basin, professor at the Department of Computer Science, has been named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to formal methods for information security.

Larger amounts can only be debited from credit cards with a PIN code. Three of our researchers have now discovered a flaw in the security system.

Professors David Basin and Joachim Buhmann as well as former doctoral student Mario Frank have received the Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT) Test of Time Award.

Professor David Basin has been selected as an individual member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW).

A donation from the Werner Siemens Foundation is helping to finance a project in which ETH researchers are looking to develop a fundamentally new security architecture.

The foundations for internet communication were laid down in the previous century and have undergone very little modernisation since. With their spin-off Anapaya Systems, Adrian Perrig, David Basin and Peter Müller, professors at the ETH Zurich Department of Computer Science, want to bring the internet into the 21st century and make it a secure and reliable means of communication.

Professor Basin has been named ACM Fellow for his contributions to Information Security and Formal Methods.

Researchers in the Information Security Group subjected the upcoming 5G mobile communication standard to a comprehensive security analysis. Their conclusion: data protection is improved in comparison with the previous standards 3G and 4G. However, security gaps are still present.

Hackers claimed last year to have a total of 12 million numbers for iPhone, iPad and iPod devices, along with some other phone numbers and personal data on their owners. During the London 2012 Olympic Games the IT network was hit by cyber attacks every day.