Our Privacy Friendly Apps (PFA) have been moved from our SECUSO account to the official KIT Play Store account today. Our apps can now be found here - still easily recognizable by the blue logo background. There will be no change for users of our apps in the F-Droid Store!

Three papers with SECUSO participation have been accepted for presentation at this year's Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI 2025). The journal article "Encouraging Users to Change Breached Passwords Using the Protection Motivation Theory" by Yixin Zou, Khue Le, Peter Mayer, Alessandro Acquisti, Adam J. Aviv, and Florian Schaub deals with design interventions to encourage users to change breached passwords. Furthermore, the paper “It's a Match - Enhancing the Fit between Users and Phishing Training through Personalisation” by Lorin Schöni, Neele Roch, Hannah Sievers, Martin Strohmeier, Peter Mayer, and Verena Zimmermann, as well as the Late Breaking Work “It's like an explosion”: Cyberwarfare harms for civilian population in Ukraine during the Russian invasion” by Oksana Kulyk, Jari Kickbusch, and Peter Mayer were accepted. CHI 2025 will take place in Yokohama, Japan, from April 26 to May 1st, 2025.

Prof. Melanie Volkamer was featured in the Deutschlandfunk Kultur program "Breitband". The program on digital elections was broadcast on March 1. The feasibility of electronic elections was discussed in light of the many late postal ballots for voters abroad in the Bundestag elections. Prof. Volkamer describes how end-to-end verifiable voting systems allow voters to track their own votes until they are counted. For voters, however, such procedures are complex and involve many steps. One question for research is how to motivate people to do this.

In the issue of February 26, 2025, Heise published an interview with Prof. Melanie Volkamer on phishing trends and protection measures in the corporate context. In the interview, Prof. Volkamer explains why classic phishing detection tips are reaching their limits and what users should look for instead. In addition to the growing role of AI, she discusses attack methods such as fraudulent messages via WhatsApp and CEO fraud. She also argues for a better security culture in companies - with meaningful training instead of questionable phishing tests.