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Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Alexander Warnecke
Congratulations to Dr. Alexander Warnecke who succesfully defended his PhD "Security Viewpoints on Explainable Machine Learning" on April 16, 2024.
Project Launch AIgenCY
With the innovative research project "AIgenCY - Opportunities and Risks of Generative AI in Cybersecurity," leading experts from academia and industry take on the challenge of exploring the implications of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for cybersecurity.
Photo recap: BIFOLD New Year's reception
At its New Year's reception BIFOLD welcomed a series of distinguished guests and friends from Berlin's AI community.
Email security under scrutiny: Examining SPF weaknesses
Cyber security researchers at BIFOLD found weaknesses in Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records, which protect email users from forged senders. The paper “Lazy Gatekeepers: A Large-Scale Study on SPF Configuration in the Wild” includes an analysis of 12 million domains’ SPF records and was now presented at the 2023 ACM Internet Measurement Conference.
Photo recap: All Hands Meeting 2023
On October 9 and 10, 2023, BIFOLD welcomed the other Geman AI centers (ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Lamarr Institute, Tübingen AI Center, MCML, and the DFKI) in Berlin. The annual meeting featured guests, partners, visitors, and researchers from all over Germany.
AI centers are the foundation of the German AI ecosystem
On October 9th and 10th, 2023, the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) at TU Berlin invited scientists from the university AI competence centers (BIFOLD, ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Lamarr Institute, Tübingen AI Center, and MCML) and the DFKI to Berlin to present and discuss the latest results of their research on the EUREF campus.
Adversarial Papers: New attack fools AI-supported text analysis
Security researchers have found significant vulnerabilities in learning algorithms used for text analysis: With the help of a novel attack, they were able to show that topic recognition algorithms can be fooled by even small changes in words, sentences and references.
BIFOLD welcomes Israel delegation
Among other institutions the BIFOLD hosted a delegation from Israeli universities as part of Germany's "Willkommen" Visitors Programme. Various BIFOLD researchers gave a short introduction to their research foci in AI. The “Willkommen” programme invites opinion leaders to experience Germany and gain a nuanced understanding of the country.
Machine Learning and Security
Welcome to Prof. Dr. Konrad Rieck, who heads the new workgroup Machine Learning and Security at BIFOLD and TU Berlin and started January 1, 2023.
Cybersecurity under scrutiny
In cybersecurity research, machine learning (ML) has emerged as one of the most important tools for investigating security-related problems: However, a group of European researchers from TU Berlin, TU Braunschweig, University College London, King’s College London, Royal Holloway University of London, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)/KASTEL Security Research Labs, led by BIFOLD researchers from TU Berlin, have shown recently that research with ML in cybersecurity contexts is often prone to error.