Two posters by and with SECUSO members involved will be presented at this year's 21st Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2025): The poster “A Framework for Developing Information Security Awareness Measures” by Mattia Mossano, Anne Hennig, Fabian Lukas Ballreich, Benjamin Maximilian Berens, Filipo Sharevski, Angela Martina Sasse, and Melanie Volkamer presents a work-in-progress framework for developing effective security awareness measures. The poster for the paper “Restricting the Link: Effects of Focused Attention and Time Delay on Phishing Warning Effectiveness” by Justin Patelka, Benjamin Berens, Carlo Sugatan, Melanie Volkamer, and Florian Schaub presents the results of a mixed-methods online experiment comparing the effectiveness of two methods for restricting links – “focused attention” and “time delay” – in reducing phishing click rates. SOUPS will take place August 10-12, 2025 in Seattle, WA, USA.

The privacy-friendly apps developed by the SECUSO research group will no longer be available via the Google Play Store, but only via the F-Droid Store. Reason for this decision is that the maintenance required to provide privacy-friendly apps in the Google Play Store is significantly greater than on F-Droid. This extra work no longer feasible for us as a research group. PFAs downloaded from the Google Play Store can continue to be used as usual. However, there will be no further updates for these apps in the future, which is why we recommend switching to the F-Droid versions. Updates will continue to be provided there in the future. Your existing data can be backed up using the BackUp app, which can also be found on F-Droid. The privacy-friendly apps can then be downloaded from F-Droid and used as usual. In our tutorial we explain every step in detail.

The paper "'The more accounts I use, the less I have to think': A Longitudinal Study on the Usability of Password Managers for Novice Users" by Patricia Arias Cabarcos and Peter Mayer has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of the Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2025). The paper presents the results of a longitudinal study of the usability of password managers. SOUPS will take place August 10-12, 2025 in Seattle, WA, USA.

As one of more than 30 research groups, SECUSO supported this year's German HCI event at the conference Computer and Human Interaction (CHI 2025). This event is held every year in conjunction with the CHI conference, this year was no different and the event was held, on 30th April 2025 at the YOKOHAMA COAST garage+ in Yokohama, Japan. The event allowed participants of all academic levels as well as from industry and public organisations to network in an informal setting. Thanks a lot to the volunteers who made this great event possible.