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Johanna Ullrich gave a guest talk on the mysteries of IPv6 addressing at the Secure Systems Group of Professor Mangard at TU Graz.

Johanna Ullrich is attending the Meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF99) in Prague at the moment. On Wednesday, she gave a talk presenting her survey on IPv6 security and privacy vulnerabilties.

The survey can be found here.

Letitia Kernschmidt spent last semester at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). She took several courses and enjoyed in particular the course on Information Security Policy and Management. It focused on the non-technical aspects of information security such as product liability laws, cyber-insurance, data- breach notification laws, and regulations about minimum security requirements. Besides these university classes, she continued to work on a research project on the spreading of interacting epidemics in the context of computer malware (WU Vienna).

Letitia – who started with a FemTech internship at SBA Research and stayed on as researcher – enjoyed her time at CMU so much that she will continue her studies there.

We are proud to announce that we have created a new Twitter feed, @SBA_prime. It is a curated, low-volume infosec timeline, operated by numerous members of SBA.

The paper “Swimming with Fishes and Sharks: Beneath the Surface of Queue-based Ethereum Mining Pools” by Alexei Zamyatin, K. Wolter, S. Werner, C.E.A. Mulligan, P.G. Harrison and W.J. Knottenbelt was accepted for publication at the 25th IEEE International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) 2017.

Abstract:
Cryptocurrency mining can be said to be the modern alchemy, involving as it does the transmutation of electricity into digital gold. The goal of mining is to guess the solution to a cryptographic puzzle, the difficulty of which is determined by the network, and thence to win the block reward and transaction fees. Because the return on solo mining has a very high variance, miners band together to create so-called mining pools. These aggregate the power of several individual miners, and, by distributing the accumulated rewards according to some scheme, ensure a more predictable return for participants.

Barbara Limbeck-Lilienau and Alexandra Mai attended IPICS 2017 in Greece; Edgar Weippl gave a tutorial on Blockchains, based on our book.

Johanna Ullrich visited the 3. AG CYSIS Symposium in Frankfurt, Germany. CYSIS is initiated by Deutsche Bahn and TU Darmstadt to develop secure railway infrastructures.

At the symposium, the results of the working groups “Resilient Architectures”, “Business Continuity Management”, “Security for Safety”, and “ETCS with Security” were presented.

The ERCIM News No. 110 has just been published with a special theme on “Blockchain Engineering“.

SBA Research contributes two articles in this issue. The first article is by Aljosha Judmayer, Alexei Zamyatin, Nicholas Stifter and Edgar Weippl on “Bitcoin – Cryptocurrencies and Alternative Applications“. The second article is by Nicholas Stifter, Aljosha Judmayer, and Edgar Weippl on “A Holistic Approach to Smart Contract Security“.

The full issue is available in PDF format here.

At the Autonomous Machines World Edgar Weippl chairs a Security Cafe Session, 2.5 hours discussion on security on autonomous production machines.

Today at ‘International Conference on Algebraic Informatics’ [CAI], Dimitris Simos is chairing a session on Design Theory, where Ludwig Kampel is presenting a paper titled ‘Covering Arrays as Set Covers’ (Ludwig Kampel, Bernhard Garn, and Dimitris E. Simos). CAI brings together researchers from mathematics and computer science, with topics discussed being at the intersection of these two fields.

[CAI] http://www.cargo.wlu.ca/CAI2017/

We are proud to host Daniel Gruss today (website, @lavados) to show us how to rowhammer!

Rowhammer is an very interesting attack that can be used to flip bits in RAM, and can be used among other things to elevate privileges. You can find his slides here.

The Josef Ressel Center for Unified Threat Intelligence on Targeted Attacks (TARGET) is being expanded in its third year. A new module is added, which is executed SBA Research, an external partner from Vienna, and the existing modules scope is extended.

Georg Merzdovnik and Edgar Weippl work on security aspects of container technology. SBA Research hosts this external module to further strengthen the cooperation with FH St. Pölten.

Further details can be found here and here.

Markus Klemen gives the keynote speech “Employee Loyalty – a Feasible Goal?” at the (ISC)² Secure Summit DACH in Zürich today.

Further details can be found here.

Artemios G. Voyiatzis is representing SBA Research at the Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings on Digital Forensics (DF) and Teaching/Learning (TL) of the EU-funded project “Strengthening European Network Centres of Excellence in Cybercrime” (SENTER). The meetings take place on June 26-27, 2017 in Esslingen, Germany.

Our book has just been published:
Blocks and Chains: Introduction to Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and Their Consensus Mechanisms.
Aljosha Judmayer, Nicholas Stifter, Katharina Krombholz, and Egar Weippl

Ninghui Li organized a panel on Access Control in Mobile Operating Systems with Xiaofeng Wang, Aafer Yousra, and Edgar Weippl (SACMAT).

Today Peter Kieseberg from SBA research is giving a talk on „Big Data im Zeichen der GDPR: Technische Fragen aus der Praxis“ at Imagine 2017.

Edgar Weippl gives a talk on privacy at Iowa State University

Adrian Dabrowski is today at the ETSI in Sophia Antipolis, presenting at the ETSI 5G Security workshop, part of the Security Week at ETSI. You can find the Agenda here.

Today, Martin Schmiedecker presents at the Linz Cyber Security Conference 2017 on “Online Anonymity beyond Tor”. The slides can be found here.

You can find the full schedule here.