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Srdjan Capkun and Zhendong Su named IEEE Fellows
- Advanced Software Technologies Lab
- System Security Group
- Award
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Srdjan Capkun and Zhendong Su, professors at the Department of Computer Science, have been named IEEE Fellows. The prestigious grade of IEEE Fellow is conferred upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.
Researchers deliver science for humanitarian action
- Network Security Group
- News
- Institute of Information Security
- Security
- News und highlights
- System Security Group
- Research
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The Engineering for Humanitarian Action initiative by the ICRC, ETH Zurich and EPFL aims to use innovative technologies to help people in need. One of the projects offering tangible improvements is the secure digial infrastructure project, based on the SCION network technology and involving D-INFK professors Srdjan Capkun and Adrian Perrig.
D-INFK team among Spark Award finalists
- System Security Group
- Research Groups
- Award
- Institute of Information Security
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ETH gave out its annual Spark Award on April 27. With their new system that enables safer digital currency transactions at a national scale, Srdjan Capkun, Kari Kostiainen and Karl Wüst from our department made it into the top five. Congratulations!
Cyber-Defence Fellowships: Adalsteinn Jonsson
- System Security Group
- Students
- News
- Security
- Cyber Defence Campus
- Studies
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In an interview with EPFL, Adalsteinn Jonsson, Master’s student at the Department of Computer Science and recipient of the seventh CYD Master Thesis Fellowship, talks about his current project and the advantages of conducting his thesis at the CYD Campus.
"It's enormously exciting to be at the forefront of research"
- Spotlight
- Alumni
- Academia
- Institute of Information Security
- Security
- System Security Group
- Research Groups
- Careers
- Front – Spotlight
- Diversity
![Prof. Christina Pöpper](/news-and-events/spotlights/infk-news-channel/2021/03/alumni-christina-poepper/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1888634153.jpg)
Christina Pöpper, a professor at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), studied and earned her doctorate at ETH Zurich, where she also advocated for women at the Department of Computer Science. Today, she shows her students the elegance and beauty of computer science.
Swiss tracing app goes on trial
- Spotlight
- System Security Group
- Front – Spotlight
- Institute of Information Security
- Security
- News und highlights
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The pilot phase for the long-awaited COVID-19 tracing app developed by ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne has started. Prof. Srdjan Čapkun explains what makes it special.
Making cryptocurrency payments fast and secure
- Spotlight
- Institute of Information Security
- Security
- News und highlights
- System Security Group
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
![Prof. Srdjan Capkun](/news-and-events/spotlights/infk-news-channel/2020/04/srdjan-capkun-snappy/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.571515613.jpg)
Prof. Srdjan Capkun and his ‘Snappy’ team have developed a system that speeds up cryptocurrency transactions: a secure, practical and fast, like a snap of the fingers, solution.
Prof. Srdjan Capkun recognised as ACM Fellow
- Institute of Information Security
- System Security Group
- Award
![Prof. Srdjan Capkun](/news-and-events/spotlights/infk-news-channel/2019/12/capkun-acm-fellow/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.216724290.jpg)
Congratulations to Prof. Srdjan Capkun for receiving this fellowship for his contributions to systems and wireless network security. Its most prestigious member grade, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) annually recognises the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology as well as their service to the computing community.
Our Digital Shapers 2019!
- Institute for Machine Learning
- Learning and Adaptive Systems
- System Security Group
- Award
- Institute of Information Security
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For the fourth time, an eleven-person jury from the Swiss business magazine BILANZ has selected the one hundred most important brains at the forefront of digitalisation – Professor Srdjan Capkun, Professor Andreas Krause and alumnus Dr. Lorenz Meier are amongst them.
Pick your identity
- Spotlight
- Institute of Information Security
- Security
- News und highlights
- System Security Group
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
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ETH doctoral students of computer science show how linking two popular technologies can have highly problematic consequences for web services.
IntegriKey – keeps your input data secure
- Spotlight
- Institute of Information Security
- Security
- News und highlights
- System Security Group
- Research Groups
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
![IntegriKey prototype](/news-and-events/spotlights/infk-news-channel/2018/07/integrikey/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.1724950559.jpg)
Would you consider connecting to your bank account in an internet café? Too risky? ETH researcher Aritra Dhar explains how to make sure that the message you send is the message received, even in a hostile environment.
ETH Meets New York 2018: Security technologies enabling the future
- Event
- Institute of Information Security
- System Security Group
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How can we develop new models of cybersecurity that create trusted digital networks? The Internet of Things and Blockchain have the potential to bring transparency and efficiency.
“It’s always a compromise”
- Spotlight
- ZISC - Zurich Information Security & Privacy Center
- Researchers in focus
- Institute of Information Security
- Security
- System Security Group
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
- Centres
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Digitalisation simplifies many aspects of our everyday life, but it also creates new risks. Srdjan Capkun, Professor for Information Security, explains how to find the right balance between convenience and security.
Expansion of Information Security
- Spotlight
- ZISC - Zurich Information Security & Privacy Center
- Institute of Information Security
- Security
- System Security Group
- Centers and cooperations
- Front – Spotlight
- Research
- Centres
![Jörg Müller-Ganz, Chairman of the Bank Council at Zürcher Kantonalbank and ETH President Lino Guzzella sign the agreement](/news-and-events/spotlights/infk-news-channel/2015/06/zisc-expansion/_jcr_content/pageimages/imageSmall.imageformat.contentteaser.781504775.jpg)
ETH Zurich is expanding its Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC). A donation of five million Swiss francs has been made by Zürcher Kantonalbank to the ETH Zurich Foundation specifically for this purpose.