Certificate revocation is known to be a difficult problem on the web, and it is even harder in constrained environments such as the maritime sector where ships can be at sea for long times, with no or very limited connectivity…
Discovering BLE Security through an internship
This article has been written by François Sevaux, student in his first year of Master at Université de Bretagne Sud, France, during his internship in our group. Internet of Things (IoT) have been growing fast over the past years, mainly…
Security Testing of the Pacemaker Ecosystem
In 2015, Marie Moe (now working at mnemonic) started a small research project on the pacemaker ecosystem security, more specifically, on the BIOTRONIK pacemaker ecosystem. Five years later, four master’s theses have been written and several talks have been given…
Privacy Preserving Contact Tracing Applications
How can they help slowing down the spread of a decease while preserving users’ privacy? Introduction In this second quarter of 2020, the world is facing a new situation with most of the countries in the world being locked down…
Mobile Network technologies and fighting COVID-19
The world is fighting against a fairly unknown enemy named COVID-19 and preparing in every possible way to win the battle. One of the strategies to reduce the spreading of COVID-19 virus is “contact tracing”. This “contact tracing” means to…
Hacking 5G Network Infrastructure – IMSI catchers and hackathon
Fake Base Station problem in 5G Continuing with the previous blogpost, we discuss the problem of fake base stations in general and a number of protection measures added in 5G standards. IMSI catcher is a device to identify and track…
Current EU calls in Cybersecurity
The ICT Proposers’ Day took place last week in Helsinki. This event aims to inform about upcoming calls for research funding within the EU’s Horizon 2020 framework program for ICT. It is as well an opportunity for industry and researchers to meet in order to build a consortium. The program was quite overwhelming with many parallel tracks. Fortunately, we had several people there and had a plan to catch up on everything what was related to cybersecurity.
There are four current calls with a particular focus on cyber security. All of them have a deadline of August, the 27th 2020:
New vulnerabilities in 5G Security Architecture & Countermeasures (Part 1)
The 5G network promises to transform industries and our digital society by providing enhanced capacity, higher data rates, increased battery life for machine-type devices, higher availability and reduced power consumptions. In a way, 5G will act as a vehicle to drive much needed digital transformation race and will push the world into the information age. Also, 5G can be used to replace the existing emergency communication network infrastructures. Many countries are about to launch 5G services commercially as 5G standards have been developed by the 3GPP group, including security procedures. The following map in Figure 1 shows 5G deployments worldwide.
Another attractive workshop
Earlier this summer we successfully organised another edition of our International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering in DevOps and Agile Development (SecSE 2019). An English version of the workshop summary will be available here Real Soon Now!