Jan 12
~€1M Euro funding from German Space Agency for Secure Satellite Systems
Our project on satellite systems security has been awarded nearly €1 million in funding from the German Space Agency (DLR).
News & Updates
Latest achievements, awards, and announcements from the EMSEC research group, including paper acceptances, funding awards, and distinguished recognitions.
Dec 12
Anota paper accepted at NDSS 2026
Our paper, titled 'Anota: Identifying Business Logic Vulnerabilities via Annotation-Based Sanitization' was accepted at NDSS 2026.
Dec 12
One Small Patch paper accepted at NDSS SpaceSec workshop 2026
Our paper, titled 'One Small Patch for a File, One Giant Leap for OTA Updates' was accepted at the NDSS SpaceSec workshop 2026.
Dec 6
~€720k Euro funding from Volkswagen Foundation for Industrial Security
Our project on industrial and production systems security has been awarded a €720k in funding from the Volkswagen Foundation (VW Stiftung)
Nov 26
Honeysat paper accepted at NDSS 2026
Our paper, titled 'HoneySat: A Network-based Satellite Honeypot Framework' was accepted at NDSS 2026.
Aug 1
Presented research to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz
We presented our research group's results to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz during his visit to the state of Saarland and CISPA.
Nov 1
TWINFUZZ paper accepted at NDSS 2025
Our paper named 'TWINFUZZ: Differential Testing of Video Hardware Acceleration Stacks' was accepted at NDSS 2025.
Oct 15
€2M funding for autonomous vehicle cyber resilience
Our project on cyber resilience of autonomous vehicles receives over 2 million euros from Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport of Germany.
Oct 1
Memory Safety Analysis of Bootloaders accepted at NDSS 2025
Our paper named 'A Comprehensive Memory Safety Analysis of Bootloaders' was accepted at NDSS 2025.
Apr 1
Inter-Satellite Friendly Jamming paper accepted at ESA conference
Our paper on the Feasibility of Inter-Satellite Friendly Jamming was accepted at ESA's 2024 Security for Space Systems conference.
Feb 1
Two papers accepted: USENIX Security and NDSS SpaceSec
Our SoK paper on security of Programmable Logic Controllers got accepted in USENIX Security Symposium 2024, and our paper on Application Sandboxing for Space Missions got accepted at NDSS SpaceSec Workshop.
Nov 1
Cyber-security satellite proposal wins DLR competition
Our proposal for a cyber-security satellite won the German Space Agency (DLR) competition between over 85 different proposals. The DLR will pay for the development and launch of our satellite.
May 1
Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE S&P 2023
Our paper on security analysis of in-orbit satellites firmware received Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2023.
Mar 1
Satellite firmware security paper accepted at IEEE S&P 2023
Our paper on security analysis of in-orbit satellites firmware was accepted at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2023.
Feb 1
Multiple open positions for PhD/Postdocs
We have multiple open positions for PhD/Postdocs in embedded systems security, firmware analysis, and space systems security.
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