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More Security for Mobil Transactions - Experience «Protected Confirmation» on a Trusted UI

29.06.2023 BFH published the APC Demo App, which lets users experience «Android Protected Confirmation» on their Pixel Device. They can gain hands-on experience and even become a catalyst for change by participating in...

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BFH, Google and UBS team up to advance mobile transaction security and convenience

02.12.2022 To make mobile transactions even more convenient and secure, Google, UBS and the University of Applied Sciences Bern BFH are working together in the Innosuisse project «Hardware Protected Confirmation».

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BFH researchers publish latest version of their e-voting system

15.09.2022 The researchers from the E-Voting Group at the Institute for Cybersecurity and Engineering (ICE) have used the summer months to update their specially developed e-voting system called OpenCHVote.

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abuse.ch: research project turns into a company

08.08.2022 The research project conducted jointly by the Institute for Cybersecurity and Engineering ICE at Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH and abuse.ch has officially come to an end. Roman Hüssy, founder of...

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Digital euro: The central bank of Austria recommends the GNU Taler system

07.07.2022 Like cash, but virtual: this could be the digital euro. Its benefits and possible implementation are discussed in a report by the Austrian Central Bank, which recommends the GNU Taler, a system developed by...

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Research project supports EU study on misuse of DNS with real-time data

23.06.2022 The Domain Name System translates domain names into IP addresses. Due to a lack of technical and organisational specifications, the system is vulnerable to abuse by cyber criminals. The EU has taken up the...

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BFH researchers analyse Swiss Post’s e-voting system

02.06.2022 A team of researchers from Switzerland and abroad has carried out in-depth analysis of the e-voting system currently being developed by Swiss Post. Experts from the E-Voting Group at the Institute for...

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BFH researcher takes part in panel discussion on DNS abuse

05.11.2021 In October, ICANN held a panel discussion about abuse of the Domain Name System (DNS). Amongst the experts invited was Roman Hüssy, founder of the abuse.ch platform and a researcher at Bern University of...

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Cyber-security analytics company Threatray raises 2.3 million CHF

17.06.2021 The Swiss deep tech cyber-security analytics company and BFH spin-off Threatray has announced the closing of a seed 2 round of 2.3 million CHF. Verve Ventures is joining the existing investors Hammer Team,...

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abuse.ch gets a new home at BFH

01.06.2021 abuse.ch – the widely used, internationally renowned platform for protection against cyber threats – is entering into a partnership with Bern University of Applied Sciences. In future, abuse.ch will be run...

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BFH steps up activities in cyber security

25.05.2021 There are many different types of cyberattack and they are becoming increasingly common. Scientific expertise is called for to prevent such attacks and to protect companies and private individuals against...

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A proposal from Switzerland for the digital euro

24.02.2021 A recently published scientific paper outlines how central banks could issue a secure digital currency in the future. The approach meets the European Central Bank’s key requirements for the future digital...