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IEEE SaTML 2025 Conference Contribution
Dr. Thorsten Eisenhofer will present the paper “Verifiable and Provably Secure Machine Unlearning,” at SaTML 2025. Eisenhofer is Postdoc in the research group “Machine Learning and Security”. His paper introduces a new framework designed to verify that user data has been correctly deleted from machine learning models, supported by cryptographic proofs.
Machine Learning Backdoors in Hardware
So-called backdoor attacks pose a serious threat to machine learning, as they can compromise the integrity of security-critical AI systems, such as those used in autonomous driving or healthcare.
Learning from the Best
Dr. Anne Josiane Kouam is researching mobile security and privacy at BIFOLD. She's been selected as one of 200 promising young mathematicians and computer scientists to spend a week with leading experts in the field.
BIFOLD researchers present four papers at ASIACCS 2024
The 19th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2024) will take place in Singapore from July 1 to July 5, 2024. The conference will focus on specific areas of computer science, such as information security and information privacy.
IEEE Test-of-Time Award for Konrad Rieck
Together with his former PhD student Fabian Yamaguchi and the entire team, Konrad Rieck won the Test-of-Time Award at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy for their paper: "Modeling and Discovering Vulnerabilities with Code Property Graphs ". The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy is the oldest and most important conference in computer security. Each year, the "Test-of-Time Award" is given to papers that significantly influenced research and can be described as groundbreaking.
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.