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Name: Arnd
Family Name: WEBER
Affiliation: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis
Personal web-site: http://www.itas.fzk.de/mahp/weber/weber.htm
Short BIO
Arnd Weber is an economist with PhD in sociology from University of Frankfurt, Germany. He has been project manager of several research projects on IT-related subjects, with the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (ITAS, KIT, formerly Karlsruhe Research Centre), Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt) and the University of Freiburg, Germany. He joined KIT as a senior scientist in 2001. Before that he was Invited Professor at NTT Corporation, Japan, in 2000. He led the requirements and specifications work in several research projects (CAFE, SEMPER, OpenTC). Currently he is conducting research in the areas of Internet security and mobile Internet deployment.
Title of the presentation
Options to secure PCs against phishing and espionage - a report from the EU-project "Open Trusted Computing"
Abstract
PC users will continue to face attacks such viruses, on the one hand, and Trojan horses eavesdropping banking passwords or confidential business data, on the other hand. Such attacks on private information are very difficult to protect against from within current operating systems. The presentation will review novel approaches to secure such data outside the user’s main OS, using virtualization techniques. The transparency and trustworthiness of such approaches is, however, by no means guaranteed. For protecting users, the development of such approaches should be observed and influenced at the political level.
On-line publications
OpenTC project newsletter, available at http://www.opentc.net See, e.g., the article on espionage in the issue of April 2009.
Dirk Kuhlmann, Arnd Weber: OpenTC Final Report. The Evolution of the OpenTC Architecture illustrated via its Proof-of-Concept-Prototypes. Bristol, Karlsruhe 2009. http://www.opentc.net" www.opentc.net
Weber, Arnd: Enabling Crypto. How Radical Innovations Occur. In: Communications of the ACM. Volume 45, Issue 4 (April 2002), 103-107
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