The proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-Vote ID 2025) are now published. All contributions in the proceedings are open access. Editors of the book are David Duenas-Cid, Peter Roenne, Melanie Volkamer, Michelle Blom, Pierrick Gaudry, Isabelle Borucki, Leontine Loeber, and Alexandre Debant. E-Vote ID is the leading international event for e-voting experts from around the world. This year, the conference took place from October 1 to 3 in Nancy, France. At the conference, three papers involving SECUSO were presented.

The SECUSO research group is using KIT's Science Week to publicly present the new citizens' panel “Wir forschen digital.” “Wir forschen digital” offers citizens the opportunity to participate in studies on digital technologies. The motto “Your perspective counts!” makes it clear that user feedback is indispensable in the development and research of digital technologies. All study participants receive financial compensation. “Wir forschen digital” will be present at two events during Science Week: on Tuesday, October 14, starting at 6 p.m. at the Market of Opportunities in the Audimax, and at the Citizen Dialogue on Saturday, October 18, starting at 2 p.m. in the Triangel. Here, interested citizens can learn more in personal conversations, participate in a mini-experiment on phishing, or interactively learn about research findings on heat in Karlsruhe. We look forward to seeing everyone who is interested in stopping by! “Wir forschen digital” is a project of SECUSO in collaboration with the Human-Centered Systems Lab and is funded by KASTEL.

The paper "'I believe it’s incredibly difficult to fight against this flood of spam': Towards Enhancing Strategies for Creating Effective Vulnerability Notifications" by Anne Hennig, Maxime Veit, Leoni Schmidt-Enke, Fabian Neusser, Dominik Herrmann, and Peter Mayer was accepted for publiction in the journal "Computers & Security". Within a notification experiment, the paper examined the influence of three different senders and three variations of a notification text on the remediation of website hacking. The authors were able to show that the notifications helped recipients to remediate the hacking, but that sender and framing do not seem to have any effect. In follow-up interviews, it became clear that many of the website operators who had not fixed the problem had perceived the notification as spam. Future research should therefore focus on developing strategies for effectively communicating the importance of vulnerability notifications.

Congratulations to Peter Mayer on his promotion to associate professor! Peter Mayer worked as a research assistant for the SECUSO research group starting in 2015 at first at TU Darmstadt and later at KIT. On January 1, 2023, he moved to the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), initially as an assistant professor. However, joint research projects and his role as coordinator and co-speaker of the “Human and Societal Factors” research group in the Helmholtz Association funded subtopic “Engineering Secure Systems” still connect him to SECUSO.