IT Security

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15FEB 2021
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Using AI to solve crime
FAU doctoral candidate Franziska Schirrmacher nominated as AI newcomer Franziska Schirrmacher, doctoral candidate at FAU’s Chair of IT Security Infrastructures, develops methods of finding digital traces in image or video files that can subsequently be used to solve crime. In recognition of her research, Schirrmacher has been shortlisted for the AI newcomer of the year […]
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06DEC 2017
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FAU researchers hack banking apps
FAU IT specialists in demonstrate the structural problems inherent in single device-based authentication processes. IT specialists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have demonstrated that 31 apps for mobile online banking are not secure, including those of the German banks Sparkasse, Volksbank, Raiffeisenbank and Commerzbank. The researchers managed to automate the deactivation of established security software, which […]FAU IT specialists in demonstrate the structural problems inherent in single device-based authentication processes. IT specialists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have demonstrated that 31 apps for mobile online banking are not secure, including those of the German banks Sparkasse, Volksbank, Raiffeisenbank and Commerzbank. The researchers managed to automate the deactivation of established security software, which […]
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04SEP 2017
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Letting programmes manage their own processing resources
Computers require an increasing amount of processing power to ensure that demanding programs run smoothly. Current technology will not able to keep up for long, and a new concept is needed in the long term: Together with their partners in the SFB/Transregio 89 collaborative project “Invasive Computing”, computer scientists at Friederich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are currently […]Computers require an increasing amount of processing power to ensure that demanding programs run smoothly. Current technology will not able to keep up for long, and a new concept is needed in the long term: Together with their partners in the SFB/Transregio 89 collaborative project “Invasive Computing”, computer scientists at Friederich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are currently […]
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