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uASC 2026
Congratulations to Paul Zinselmeyer on publishing his Bachelor Research Project as poster at the 2nd Microarchitecture Security Conference. This is joint work with Philipp Mackensen (UbiSys) and Dina Hesse (SecEng).
USENIX Security 2025
Congratulations to Philipp and co-authors on the USENIX Security paper acceptance! The project was a collaboration with CASA Postdoc Roberto Blanco (MPI-SP), CASA PI Lucas Davi and PhD student Christian Niesler from University of Duisburg-Essen.
Paper: Kintsugi: Secure Hotpatching for Code-Shadowing Real-Time Embedded Systems (with artifact) 
PETS 2025
Congratulations to Felix and co-authors on the PETS paper acceptance. This was a collaboration with CASA PI Martin Johns and PhD student David Klein from TU Braunschweig.
Paper: Making Web Applications GDPR Compliant: A Comparative Evaluation of GDPR-Enforcement Frameworks
EXZELLENT! IT-Sicherheit Auf Smartphones
As part of Ruhr University Bochum’s media campaign for the renewal of the Cluster of Excellence CASA, a snippet of the research conducted at UbiSys was featured on Instagram!
UbiSys featured in the "Secrets" issue of RUBin Wissenschaftsmagazin (RUBin science magazin), May 2025
The science magazine at Ruhr University Bochum wrote an article featuring our IEEE S&P 2024 paper. The research was a collaboration with Radboud University and KU Leuven.
The science article can accessed in English and German, and the magazine can be downloaded here (in German only).
Two papers accepted @ S&P 2025
Congratulations to Daniel and Stefan Horstmann on their paper acceptance at IEEE S&P 2025. You can read more about their research here:
Honorable Mention @ CHI 2025
Congratulations to Tarini and co-authors on receiving an Honorable Mention for their work titled „Judging Phishing Under Uncertainty: How Do Users Handle Inaccurate Automated Advice?“ at CHI 2025.
Two papers accepted @ NDSS 2025
Congratulations to Daniel and Philipp on their paper acceptance at NDSS 2025. You can read more about their research here:
- Daniel Klischies et al., Vulnerability, Where Art Thou? An Investigation of Vulnerability Management in Android Smartphone Chipsets
- Philipp Mackensen et al., Spatial-Domain Wireless Jamming with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (Media coverage: CASA, MPI-SP, Hackster.io, ZDNet, etc.)
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
Congratulations to Hamid on his journal article acceptance in the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security. The article is titled Level Up with ML Vulnerability Identification: Leveraging Domain Constraints in Feature Space for Robust Android Malware Detection.
Presentation On Cellular Security @ RuhrSec 2025
At this year’s RuhrSec conference, Daniel has presented an overview of several years of cellular security research we have conducted at UbiSys. RuhrSec is an annual international security conference that brings together researchers from academia and practitioners from industry to discuss insights into current trends, threats, and technologies in presentations on modern security practices, vulnerability research, and defense strategies. For more details, please see our list of publications.
PC Chair @ ACNS 2025 & DIMVA 2025
Veelasha will serve as PC chair for ACNS 2025 and DIMVA 2025. We look forward to your paper submissions!
ACNS 2025, 23-26 June in Munich, Germany.
DIMVA 2025, 9-11 July in Graz, Austria.