The Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) reported on the SECUSO Privacy Friendly Apps (PFA) in its edition of Monday, February 24. The games in particular were praised for being free of advertising and user tracking. The Privacy Friendly Apps developed by the SECUSO research group only request the permissions required for functionality and do not contain any tracking mechanisms, meaning that no (usage) data is collected. All applications of the Privacy Friendly Apps group can therefore be installed without any concerns regarding privacy violations. The Privacy Friendly Apps are only available for Android devices and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store or the F-Droid Store.

The proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-Vote-ID 2024) are now available online in the Digital Library of the German Informatics Society (GI) under the title “LNI-Band P359 - E-Vote-ID 2024”. A total of 16 contributions are included, two of which SECUSO was involved in. The aim of E-Vote-ID is to bring together e-voting specialists from academia, politics and industry to discuss various aspects of different forms of electronic voting. E-Vote-ID 2025 will take place this year from October 1 to 3 in Nancy, France.

The team project “Wirtschaft und Technologie" (Business and Technology) will take place in the summer semester 2025. As part of the practical course, students will work on an interdisciplinary issue at the interface between economics and STEM subjects within one semester. In teams of 4-6 people, the students work together to develop an artifact, which they present at the end in a joint final event. SECUSO also offers a team project in which students design and evaluate an interactive website. Depending on the project, students can have the team project (9 ECTS) credited either in the "BWL/ING-Vertiefungsmodul" or in the compulsory elective module. Registration is possible from 14.02.2025 to 16.03.2025.

Anne Hennig supports the program committee of the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2025). ARES annually transforms European cities into knowledge exchange hubs, spotlighting dependability's critical facets—availability, reliability, and security. The conference serves as a forum for in-depth discussions on dependability, covering safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability, and security across diverse applications. ARES 2025 takes place August 11-14, 2025 in Ghent, Belgium. Paper for the main conference can be submitted until February 28, 2025.