The research group SECUSO (Security • Usability • Society) belongs to the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The group was founded in 2011 by Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer at the TU Darmstadt. SECUSO moved to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology at the beginning of 2018. SECUSO is a member of Kastel, K-CIST and KD²Lab.

NoPhish videos now also with subtitles (26-04-2024)

All three German NoPhish videos are now also available with German subtitles. This makes the videos more accessible for our German-speaking users and better supports them to find out about the dangers of phishing messages and how to protect themselves against phishing. The first two videos describe how to check senders and recognize dangerous attachments and links. The third video describes how to keep cool despite stress or time pressure. The videos with subtitles are available on our YouTube channel.

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Reminder: Submit your paper to EuroUSEC 2024 (25-04-2024)

Reminder: Until May 31 current contributions from the area of usable security can be submitted to the European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC) 2024. Contributions have to be registered until May 27, 2024. Submission deadline is May, 31, 2024. As in previous years, EuroUSEC will be an independent event without affiliation to any conference. Accepted contributions will be published as part of the International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS) by ACM. EuroUSEC 2024 will take place September 30 and October 1, 2024 in Karlstad, Sweden. Anne Hennig supports the conference as member of the program commitee.

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Transferstelle Cybersicherheit refers to NoPhish Videos (23-04-2024)

Fraudsters no longer rely on the "grandchild trick" in the hallway, but on nasty tricks online! The three NoPhish videos from the SECUSO research group explain the dangers posed by phishing emails and provide tips on how to recognize phishing emails. Each video explains how users can recognize unsafe senders and dangerous attachments, how users can recognize whether a link is unsafe, and how to keep a cool head even in stressful situations and not let themselves be unsettled. The videos are now also part of the self-learning materials from the Cybersecurity Transfer Center for SMEs (Transferstelle Cybersicherheit für den Mittelstand).

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Anne Hennig and Maxime Veit support the Poster Jury of SOUPS 2024 (19-04-2024)

Anne Hennig and Maxime Veit support the Poster Jury of the Twentieth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2024). SOUPS seeks posters and poster abstracts of recent or ongoing research related to usable privacy and security. Submissions of preliminary findings from ongoing work, undergraduate/master research projects, or posters about work on usable privacy and security that were recently published at other venues (2023 to 2024) are welcomed. Submission deadline for posters is Thursday, May 23, 2024. SOUPS 2024 will take place August 11–13, 2024, and will be co-located with the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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