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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

Screenshot of a news article that reads: Beware of Radio Network Surveillance Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology demonstrated a method for identifying individuals using standard Wi-Fi devices. They found Wi-Fi devices communicating with each other in a person's surroundings produce patterns based on radio waves that are similar to images captured by cameras. The individual does not need to have a Wi-Fi device in their possession, and special hardware is not needed to identify anyone in range of a wireless local area network.

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!
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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) The Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) brings together cutting-edge researchers, with a broad cross-section of security professionals drawn from academia, industry, and governmen...

The results suggest that while the sender of the notification has no effect, tool support might increase remediation when the sender is different than the institution providing the tool. ACSAC takes place December 8 to 12 in Honolulu: www.acsac.org @gehaxelt.bsky.social securitycapybara.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

Participants of the Dagstuhl seminar stand on the stairway of the castle.

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

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👏 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.

Chatkontrolle: GI lehnt Verordnungsentwurf der EU ab Unter der dänischen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft wird derzeit über einen neuen Kompromissentwurf zur Chatkontrolle verhandelt, über den der Rat am 14. Oktober 2025 entscheiden soll. Der Entwurf würde eine a...

#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...
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Melanie Volkamer and David Duenas-Cid stand in front of a screen that shows date and place of next year's E-Vote ID.

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 👋☺️

A person sits in front of a laptop, her hands are on the keyboard. There is a second monitor that shows a voting systems. The person in front of the laptop looks up to another person. Both are smiling, it seems they are having a good conversation.

The picture shows three people. It seems that one person is listening to what one of the other two is explaining. All stand in front of a table with a laptop and a bigger monitor that shows a QR code. There are several posters in the room.

In multiple user studies, we developed improvements for the different components of a verifiable online voting system. During the demo session, participants had the opportunity to cast their votes via the online voting system and to verify the accuracy of their votes using a second device.

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 👏

Herr the Link to the study published by the @bsi.bund.de

www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/D...

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

A lecture hall full of people, the picture is taken from above. In the foreground, you can see a person speaking.

Great to see so many interested researchers at #EVoteID25

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Melanie Volkamer, Peter Roenne und David Duenas-Cid stehen in einem Hörsaal vor Publikum und eröffnen die E-Vote-ID 2025.

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

...during the evaluation of the Helmholtz topic Engineering Secure Systems (#ESS).

The demo is joint work with Bernhard Becker, Felix Dörre, Amina Gutjahr, Michael Kirsten, Jörn Müller Quade, Indra Spieker gen. Döhnemann, and Melanie Volkamer.

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Ein Mensch steht mit einem Mikrofon in der Hand vor einem Poster und erklärt etwas. Der Inhalt des Plakats ist nicht zu lesen, die Überschrift lautet: Usable, Secure, and Legally Compliant Individual Verifiability in Internet Voting. Vor dem Poster steht ein Tisch mit einem Monitor, auf dem eine Website zu sehen ist.

#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...
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Electronic Voting The open access E-Vote-ID 2025 proceedings deal with up to date research on the development of electronic and internet voting and electoral technologies.

📢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

It examines the influence of different senders and notification texts on the remediation of website hacking. The notifications helped to remediate hackings, but sender and framing don't seem to have an effect: doi.org/10.5445/IR/1... @2fa.bsky.social @herdom.bsky.social @securitycapybara.bsky.social

“I believe it’s incredibly difficult to fight against this flood of spam”: Towards Enhancing Strategies for Creating Effective Vulnerability Notifications

"'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.

Joint #research projects and his role as coordinator and co-speaker of the “Human and Societal Factors” research group in the @helmholtz.de funded subtopic “Engineering Secure Systems” still connect him to SECUSO.
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