Cybersecurity

What location data reveals about you

Location data allows rich insights into private details about our lives: where we live and work, how we spend our free time and what is important to us, says Nina Wiedemann. This poses a considerable security risk – even if we have nothing to hide.

Making e-voting safer from coercion and vote buying

As we come to the end of a year in which half the world’s population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter coercion and vote buying.

From weakest link to security factor

Verena Zimmermann is convinced that it is too simplistic to view people solely as a risk factor in cyber security. Rather, the special abilities of users should be utilised in a targeted way in order to increase cyber security.

Finding security flaws in Android ahead of malicious hackers

Are you concerned about hackers stealing your fingerprint and face data for accessing your smartphone? EPFL researchers have found numerous security flaws in Android’s most privileged components before hackers do and give advice to users on how to reduce risks.

Safeguarding the public service in the digital era

Digitalization and the proliferation of service platforms are permeating all areas of our society, and the public service is not immune to this evolution. A policy paper from the EPFL Center for Digital Trust offers recommendations to maintain the quality of the Swiss public service.

ETH research supply support to the Swiss state

From devising forecasting models for the Federal Finance Administration and describing the latest trends in civil protection, ETH researchers routinely supply vital support to the Swiss state and help drive innovation.

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