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Piwik vulnerability

October 20, 2011

Manuel found and reported a vulnerability. Excerpt from the changelog (Piwik 1.6): “Security: we would like to thank the following people for their responsible disclosure: […] Secure Business Austria […] Thank you to all these people for disclosing security issues to the Piwik team, ensuring a healthy and safe… Read More

Webinar: Cloud Security

October 19, 2011

We present a short overview of security issue in cloud-based storage services at conect’s Webinar series “Security & Risk Management”.

Securing XML archives for Search Based Applications – John Tait

October 19, 2011

Securing XML archives for Search Based Applications (Talk by John Tait; Oct 19; 10am SBA) There has been a recent trend to produce what are known as Search Based Applications. One strand of this work is based on the observation that many organisation keep legacy transaction orientated systems up and… Read More

CCS 2011: The Power of Procrastination

October 18, 2011

Clemens Kolbitsch recently finished his PhD supervised by Engin Kirda and Chris Kruegel. Tomorrow, he will present his paper “The Power of Procrastination: Detection and Mitigation of Execution-Stalling Malicious Code” at CCS 2011. Clemens will shortly join our partner company TLLOD.

Manuel Leithner – ORF

October 12, 2011

Manuel Leithner presented weaknesses of Facebook, WLANs and Smartphones on ORF (youtube).

Talk on Cloud Security

October 4, 2011

Edgar Weippl presents the Usenix paper at the Conect Event on Security (schedule).

Data Loss Prevention

September 30, 2011

“Die letzten Veröffentlichungen sind zwar relativ gewichtig, weil es sich um sensible Daten handelt, aber technisch gesehen nicht unbedingt aufwendig”, sagt Martin Mulazzani von SBA Research, einem Wiener Forschungsinstitut für IT-Security (derstandard.at)… Read More

Secure development of web-applications – Secure Coding I + II

September 29, 2011

Severin Winkler is holding several lessons on secure development of web-applications in cooperation with CON•ECT. The core components of these talks are the top ten security leaks of web applications in 2010 identified by OWASP. The lessons include advanced security topics necessary for the development of modern web-applications and offer a focus on… Read More

Guest speaker Melanie Volkamer: Usable Security in the Context of Electronic Elections

September 29, 2011

Guest speaker Melanie Volkamer: Usable Security in the Context of Electronic Elections The subject of electronic voting has enjoyed several years of considerable interest both from election officials and IT security and cryptography researchers. The interest of election officials is based especially on the possibility to obtain fast and… Read More

ACSAC 2011: Social Snapshots – Digital Forensics for Online Social Networks

September 28, 2011

We are going to present our social snapshot forensic tool at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2011. Abstract: Recently, academia and law enforcement alike have shown a strong demand for data that is collected from online social networks. In this work, we present a novel method for… Read More

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