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New Technology Fixes Security Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts

14.10.2020
Press Release
Information and System Security
Smart contracts have made Ethereum the world's second largest crypto currency. However, recent criminal attacks have exploited errors in the contracts programmed. Together with partners, the paluno working group of Prof. Lucas Davi has developed and evaluated a technique that enables published smart contracts to be improved instantly.

EU: New Position Paper about the Role of Software Technology in Key Digital Technologies

14.10.2020
Press Release
Digital Key Technologies
The European Initiative NESSI released a position paper titled “Software and Key Digital Technologies". It identifies important topics that should be focused on in the next EU research and innovation framework program "Horizon Europe". The Chair for Software Systems Engineering of Prof. Dr. Klaus Pohl has contributed significantly to the paper.
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Danger to Sensitive Data

15.07.2020
Press Release
Information and System Security
Security experts from paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology at the University of Duisburg-Essen revealed multiple vulnerabilities in security-critical software running in protected memory areas of modern Intel processors. In the worst-case scenario, harmful actions could be infiltrated into sensitive programs, e.g. into the software of fingerprint scanners. With the help of the researchers many vendors already patched their software.

Artificial Intelligence Takes over the Job of Software Engineers

09.07.2020
Press Release
Innovative Software Systems
Development Methods and Tools
Today, there are countless possibilities of application for self-adaptive software, but the development of these systems presents software engineers with new challenges. Scientists from the Software Technology Institute paluno at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) have now achieved promising results with novel artificial intelligence (AI) techniques that automate the development process of self-adaptive systems.

E-Learning and E-Exams for Northrhine-Westphalia

17.06.2020
Press Release
Digital Education
The state government of Northrhine-Westphalia has selected five projects for the programme “Digital Tools in Higher Education. ” With it: the project Harness.nrw. Under the leadership of the software institute paluno of the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), existing applications for e-assessment are to be brought together in such a way that they can be used nationwide.

Security for Personal Data in the Cloud

08.06.2020
Press Release
Digital Key Technologies
Information and System Security
The demand for cloud services has never been greater. This brings the issue of data protection to the fore. In the RestAssured project, scientists from the Ruhr Institute for Software Technology paluno at the University of Duisburg-Essen have researched how cloud providers can better protect the personal data of their customers.

Networking of European Data Platform Projects

20.05.2020
Press Release
Event
Digital Key Technologies
At the beginning of the year, nine EU-funded data platform projects were launched under the umbrella of the Big Data Value PPP. The first online meetings have now taken place to establish synergies between the projects.

Education and Training for Big Data Specialists

11.05.2020
Press Release
Digital Key Technologies
Digital Education
Together with the partners in the BDVe project, the paluno woking group Software Systems Engineering has set up the Big Data Value Education Hub. The platform is now part of the European Commission Pledge Viewer.

Seamless Data Protection in the Computing Continuum

02.03.2020
Press Release
Digital Key Technologies
Information and System Security
Computing power is in demand when more and more devices become smart. New network structures combine fog and cloud resources for this purpose. The Software Systems Engineering working group and its partners in the EU project FogProtect are looking into how data can be protected here.

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