CISPA TL;DR - Der Podcast über KI- und IT-Sicherheitsforschung

Noticed that all your newsletters and notification mails look like tiny, fancy webpages nowadays? Well, that’s because they basically are. But your inbox glow-up came with a plot twist. Turns out that CSS, the thing that makes your mails look pretty, might be a bit too powerful. In this latest episode of TL;DR CISPA researcher Leon Trampert tells us how our inboxes might be spying on us and if you should be afraid of your IKEA newsletter.

Aufgrund der Allgegenwart von KI-Anwendungen im Alltag steigt auch die Bedeutung von Algorithmen für die Menschen. Aber wie lässt sich garantieren, dass Algorithmen faire Entscheidungen treffen? Dies ist ein Thema, das den CISPA-Forscher Julian Siber umtreibt. Im Podcast sprechen wir darüber, woher die Bias von Algorithmen kommen, welche Ansätze es für algorithmische Fairness gibt, ob wir Fairness-by-Design brauchen und welche Lösung er favorisiert. Für seinen eigenen Ansatz hat der die Spezifikationssprache RTLola weiterentwickelt, die bisher vor allem in der Luftfahrt Anwendung fand.

Usenix Security 2025 is coming up fast – and in this special conference episode of CISPA TL;DR, we’re diving into the world of browser extensions with CISPA researcher Shubham Agarwal. Browser extensions can be incredibly useful – think ad blockers, password managers, or translation tools. But while they extend what our browsers can do, they also often gain access to everything we do online: what we read, type, and click. That makes them a powerful, and potentially risky, piece of software. Shubham took a closer look at the security practices of browser extension developers. What assumptions do they make? What do they get wrong? And what could be done better to protect users? Tune in to hear what he found—and what it means for the security of your daily browsing. Check out all of Shubham's papers: https://ap0ca1ypse.in/publications.html

USENIX Security 2025 in Seattle is just around the corner! As one of the leading conferences in security and privacy, it's the perfect time to take a closer look at the research being presented. In this special conference episode of CISPA TL;DR, we talk to CISPA researcher Divyanshu Bhardwaj about his work on one of modern life’s worst nightmares: phone theft. As Divyanshu points out, our phones hold almost everything—photos, boarding passes, banking apps, and more. So what actually happens when your phone gets stolen? And how can we better protect users in that worst-case scenario? Tune in to hear what Divyanshu learned from real-world phone theft victims and what steps he thinks we can take to keep our data safe, even when our phones fall into the wrong hands. Check out all of Divyanshu's research papers here: https://publications.cispa.de/authors/Divyanshu_Bhardwaj/17288206