Prof. Melanie Volkamer, #SECUSO, wird am 20. Januar 26 im Rahmen der Fachtagung "Update für Personalrätinnen und Personalräte", organisiert von der Bayrischen Akademie für Verwaltungsmanagement zum Thema "Sicherheitsanforderungen an digitale Tools für Internet-Wahlen und Abstimmungen" sprechen. 1/2

“The whos, whats, and whys of issues related to personal data and data protection in open-source projects on GitHub” by Anne Hennig, Lukas Schulte, Steffen Herbold, Oksana Kulyk, and Peter Mayer will be published in #EMSE! It examines discussions on personal data and data protection on #GitHub. 1/2

#SECUSO beteiligt sich mit "Wir forschen digital" am Trialog. "Wir forschen digital" bietet Bürger:innen die Möglichkeit, an Studien zu digitalen Technologien teilzunehmen. Am Donnerstag ab 17:30 Uhr in der Triangel können Interessierte an einem Mini-Phishing-Experiment teilnehmen. @kit.edu 1/2

We are delighted to welcome Emiram Kablo as a guest #researcher at #SECUSO in October! She has been a #research assistant at the #IT #Security Chair at the University of Paderborn since 2022 and conducts research on usable #authentication systems for VR and neurotechnologies, among other topics. 1/2

Wir haben eine neue Version der #Privacy Friendly ToDo-Listen-App veröffentlicht! Teil des Updates sind Widget-Verbesserungen, Fehlerbehbungen, sowie zusätzliche Übersetzungen. Die App ist eine der Privacy Friendly Apps für Android, die von der Forschungsgruppe #SECUSO entwickelt wurden. 1/2

It was a pleasure to visit @secuso.aifb.kit.edu and imagine future cooperations.

Vielen Dank an alle TeilnehmerInnen des gestrigen KA-ITSi Events zum Thema Online-Wahlen. Es war eine sehr spannende Diskussion während und nach dem Vortrag

Congratulations @ps@social.kit.edu fir having your research mentioned in the ACM Tech News 🥳👏 Such a nice surprise to read about KIT research this morning! @KIT_Karlsruhe@social.kit.edu @strufe.bsky.social @kastel-labs.bsky.social

The paper “Fix It - If you Can! Towards Understanding the Impact of Tool Support and Domain Owners’ Reactions to SSHFP Misconfigurations" by Anne Hennig, Sebastian Neef, and Peter Mayer will be presented at @acsacconf.bsky.social! They notified domain owners with misconfigured SSHFP records.

We are happy to welcome Prof. Dr. Vanessa Teague as guest of SECUSO! Prof. Teague is CEO of Thinking Cybersecurity and Associate Professor at the Australian National University. You are invited to her talk about auditing complex elections on October 13th, 11 am: secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/73.php

We are enjoying the Dagstuhl Seminar on Trustworthy Evidence-Based Elections this week! Happy to be joined by so many great researchers 🗣️💬 Image: Dagstuhl Castle - LZI GmbH, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...), unmodified, original: www.dagstuhl.de/25411

👏 Congratulations Tobias, Florian, and Philipp, for winning the best paper award for their paper on the development and evaluation of a video on #onlineelections. The paper was chosen for bridging the gap between research & practical application, and providing benefits for society as a whole.

#SECUSO unterstützt Initiativen gegen #Chatkontrolle Am 14. Oktober entscheidet der Rat der EU über einen Entwurf zur Kontrolle von privaten Chats, der es erlauben würde, Nachrichten auf den Endgeräten vor und nach der Verschlüsselung zu prüfen. ℹ️ gi.de/meldung/chat... @kastel-labs.bsky.social

After this year's edition in Nancy, France, one thing is now clear: The 2026 edition of @evoteid.bsky.social will take place in Tallinn, Estonia, from October 6 to 9! We are looking forward to it! #EVoting #DigitalDemocracy #CyberSecurity

We had a great experience at @evoteid.bsky.social! Thanks to everyone and see you next year 👋☺️

Many thanks to all who visited our demo yesterday at @evoteid.bsky.social and provided feedback. The demo of the various parts of our verifiable #onlinevoting system was first presented as part of the #ESS evaluation. We now had the chance to obtain further feedback directly from the community.

Congratulations to Tobias, who presented his research on the development of an explanatory video on verifiable internet voting 👏

Thanks a lot to Florian to present our paper „On a Study of Mechanisms for End-to-End Verifiable Online Voting (StuVe) co-authored by Véronique Cortier, Alexandre Debant, Ralf Kuesters, Florian Moser, Johannes Mueller and Melanie Volkamer #EVoteID2025

⭐Welcome to the second day of the conference! We start with the presentation of Michael Naehrig: "ElectionGuard: A modular approach to verifiable elections" which gives very interesting insights on ElectionGuard's cryptographic building blocks #EVoteID25

🌟Last talk of the morning! Thanks to @ilevin.bsky.social for presenting: "From Reporting Delay to Conspiracy Theory" which highlights the critical role of political information in shaping interpretations of electoral controversies. #EVoteID25

Christina (who visited us earlier this year several weeks) is presenting our common paper at #EVoteID2025 @oksanakulyk.bsky.social Results of interviews conducted in Germany and Denmark

This morning, Melanie Volkamer, #SECUSO, joined by David Duenas-Cis and Peter Roenne, opened this year's E-Vote-ID! We are looking forward to three days of interesting presentations and discussions 💬🗨️@evoteid.bsky.social @davidduenascid.bsky.social #EvoteID25 #conference Picture by Tobias Hilt

Some impressions from the first keynote at #EVoteID2025

#EVoteID25 will start tomorrow 🗣️ During the demo session tomorrow evening, Tobias Hilt will present an improved user interface and voting materials for the cast-then-audit individual verifiability approach for verifiable #internetvoting. The demo was already presented in May... @evoteid.bsky.social

📢We are pleased to announce that the Springer Proceedings of #EvoteID25 are now published and open access! Explore cutting-edge research on electronic voting, security, usability, governance, and more. 🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #EVoting #CyberSecurity #DigitalDemocracy #AcademicConference

"'I believe it’s incredibly difficult to fight against this flood of spam': Towards Enhancing Strategies for Creating Effective Vulnerability Notifications" by Anne Hennig, Maxime Veit, Leoni Schmidt-Enke, Fabian Neusser, Dominik Herrmann, and Peter Mayer was accepted at "Computers & Security". 1/2

At this occasion, Tobias Hilt, #SECUSO, presented how to systematically examine human factors that need to be considered in #onlineelections (e.g., perceived usability or voters' ability to verify their votes), and the results of a recent study on US citizens' trust in electronic voting machines.

🎉Congratulations to Peter Mayer on his promotion to associate professor! 🎉Peter Mayer worked as research assistant for SECUSO from 2015 to 2022, first at TU Darmstadt and later at @kit.edu! In 2023, he moved to the University of Southern Denmark as an assistant professor. @tuda.bsky.social 1/2

Am 23.10. spricht Prof. Melanie Volkamer zum Thema "Wer die Wahl hat..." beim Event der Karlsruher IT-Sicherheitsinitiative. Sie beleuchtet Sicherheitsanforderungen an Internet-Wahlen, stellt praktische Beispiele vor und diskutiert Vor- und Nachteile. Zur Anmeldung: www.ka-it-si.de/events/aktue...

The program for the Tenth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (#EVoteID25) has been published. This year, three papers involving #SECUSO will be presented. @evoteid.bsky.social

#SECUSO heute beim @bsi.bund.de in Freital. Weitergeleitet von unserer Kollegin Anne Hennig: Heute stand Besuch beim BSI in Freital an, wo heute die Ergebnisse der Workstreams aus dem Dialog für Cybersicherheit vorgestellt werden und über die Zukunft des Dialogs diskutiert wird.

Reposted from our colleagues who are currently visiting #EuroUSEC25 in Manchester 🇬🇧 Day 2 of #EuroUSEC25 is about to start, and amazing Dr. Nurse (@jasonnurse.bsky.social) is getting everyone on track for an inspiring day with a lot of good papers. #SECUSO

On July 14, Mr. Laurent Watrin, deputy mayor and councilor of the Métropole Grand Nancy, visited SECUSO as part of the German-French talks between #Karlsruhe and #Nancy. Dr. Benjamin Berens presented our #research including the #NoPhish concept: secuso.aifb.kit.edu/99.php @watrinlaurent.bsky.social

Bild der #Wissenschaft berichtet über Cyberangriffe in modernen Autos. Zu Wort kommt auch Prof. Melanie Volkamer. Sie warnt, dass Angriffe auf Fahrzeugflotten oder Verkehrsnetze eine reale Bedrohung sind, die sich in Zukunft durch generative #KI verstärken kann: www.wissenschaft.de/bdwplus/hack...

Im Artikel "RFC 9116 (“security.txt”) an deutschen Hochschulservern", der jetzt in "#Datenschutz und #Datensicherheit" erscheint, untersuchten Finn Eckstein, Ria Rosenauer, Pascal Huppert, Melanie Volkamer und Dominik Herrmann die Verbereitung des Standards RFC 9116 an deutschen Hochschulen.

Im #Wintersemester am @kit.edu veranstaltet #SECUSO diese Lehrveranstaltungen (mit): Praktikum "Security, #Usability, #Society" und Seminare "Informationssicherheit und #Datenschutz" und "Security and #Privacy Awareness". Bewerbungen für das Praktikum bereits möglich: secuso.aifb.kit.edu/3016.php

Another paper with SECUSO contribution is accepted @evoteid.bsky.social! "On a Study of Mechanisms for End-to-End Verifiable Online Voting" by V. Cortier, A. Debant, R. Kuesters, F. Moser, J. Mueller & M. Volkamer describes and evaluates end-to-end verifiable online #voting mechanisms. e-vote-id.org

Filipo Sharevski presented a joint work between #SECUSO, DePaul University, and @ruhr-uni-bochum.de during the poster session at #SOUPS2025 on Monday evening. This collaboration led to the development of a framework to develop information security awareness measures.

Some members of SECUSO are part of the “Digital Transformation of Research” project. In DiTraRe, researchers from @kit.edu and FIZ investigate how digital tools influence their work in 4 areas: “Protected Data Spaces”, “Smart Data Acquisition,” “AI-Based Knowledge Realms,” & “Publication Cultures.”

2 papers are accepted at the Workshop on Usable Security and Privacy at MuC! "`It sounds like automation´ - Towards Users' Understanding of Adaptive Systems" by A. Hennig, M. Mossano, L. Aldag, M. Veit, and M. Volkamer investigated how users understand ITbAS and which risks they associate with them.

Mit der Denkwerkstatt (14./15. 11.) startet ein neuer "Dialog für Cybersicherheit". Dort werden Cybersicherheit-Ideen und -Themen mit dem @bsi.bund.de und Engagierten aus Wissenschaft und anderen Bereichen geteilt. Bis 31. 8. können Ideen-Skizzen für die folgenden Workstreams eingereicht werden. 1/2

“Do (Not) Tell Me About My Insecurities: Assessing the Status Quo of Coordinated #Vulnerability Disclosure in Germany Amid New EU #Cybersecurity Regulations” by Sebastian Neef, Cenk Schlunke, and Anne Hennig has been accepted for publication at #EuroUSEC2025: eurousec2025.cis.strath.ac.uk

Benjamin Berens and Peter Mayer will again support @chi.acm.org as Associate Chairs (AC) for the 'Privacy & Security' subcommittee. ACs match papers and reviewers. CHI 2026 will take place from April 13 to 17, 2026 in Barcelona: chi2026.acm.org ‪@reaktanz.bsky.social‬ @securitycapybara.bsky.social

Two SECUSO papers are accepted @evoteid.bsky.social! In “Voting Under Pressure: Perceptions of Counter-Strategies in Internet Voting” by Christina Nissen, Tobias Hilt, Jurlind Budurushi, Melanie Volkamer, and Oksana Kulyk potential online voters were asked about measures against voter coercion.

From May 26 to 18, a group of international scientists visited Karlsruhe to evaluate, among other things, the Topic Engineering Secure Systems (ESS). ESS is one of 3 (sub)topics in the Program Engineering Digital Futures in the Helmholtz Research Field “Information.”

We welcome Dr. Juraj Sikra, PhD as a new PostDoc @SECUSO! Juraj received his doctorate in June 2025 at the University of Strathclyde from improving #cybercrime reporting in Scotland. Juraj’s original background is in clinical and criminal #psychology as well as Human Resource Management. 1/2

Posters accepted @soupsconference.bsky.social 🎉 🖼️ “A Framework for Developing Information Security Awareness Measures” by M. Mossano, A. Hennig, F. Ballreich, B. Berens, F. Sharevski, M. A. Sasse, and M. Volkamer presents a work-in-progress framework for developing effective ISA measures.

Day 2 of our Future of Human-Centered Privacy workshop begins, where I present @secusoresearch.bsky.social! Looking forward to inspiring discussions. We’ll cover many important topics such as inclusive privacy, privacy and AI, and privacy communication and decisions. #FHCP #Privacy #Dagstuhl

The privacy-friendly apps developed by SECUSO will no longer be available via Google Play Store, but only via F-Droid Store. This is because the maintenance required to provide PFAs in the Google Play Store is significantly greater than on F-Droid. This extra work is no longer feasible for us. 1/3

As one of more than 30 #research groups, #SECUSO supported this year's German HCI event at the conference Computer and Human Interaction (#CHI2025). This event is held every year in conjunction with the CHI conference, this year on 30th April in Yokohama. Thanks to the volunteers! www.germanhci.de