Dutch Cyber Security best Research Paper (DCSRP) award 2024

Two of our works were shortlisted for the „Dutch Cyber Security best Research Paper (DCSRP)” award 2024. On October 1st, during the ONE Conference in The Hague, it was announced that our work "DeepCASE: Semi-Supervised Contextual Analysis of Security Events" was selected as runner-up for the technical track, which puts it among the top-3 technical cybersecurity research papers with Dutch co-authorship. Our second paper "I Still Know What You Watched Last Sunday: Privacy of the HbbTV Protocol in the European Smart TV Landscape" won the award as final winner for the multidisciplinary track.

DeepCASE by Thijs van Ede (UTwente, SCS), Hojjat Aghakhani (University of California), Noah Spahn (University of California), Riccardo Bortolameotti (IBM and former PhD student at UTwente), Marco Cova (VMware, Inc.), Andrea Continella (UTwente, SCS), Maarten van Steen (UTwente, DSI), Andreas Peter (University of Oldenburg and UTwente, SCS), Christopher Kruegel (University of California), Giovanni Vigna (University of California) has been published at the S&P '22 conference. It is a novel system to detect potential malicious activities in IT infrastructure and specifically leverages the context around security events to determine which events require further manual inspection.

Carlotta Tagliaro (TU Wien and former MSc student at UTwente), Florian Hahn (UTwente, SCS), Riccardo Sepe (Guess Europe Sagl), Alessio Aceti (Sababa Security SpA) and Martina Lindorfer (TU Wien) studied in their work “I Still Know What You Watched Last Sunday” the state of hybrid broadcast broadband television (HbbTV) in Europe. The paper which has been published at the NDSS '23 conference  assesses end users' privacy and compared the findings with users’ expectations and concerns in the context of  HbbTV. Several tracking techniques which partly violate GDRP have been highlighted and discussed in this work.

Congratulations to all our successful researchers!