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  • Ph.D. position

    We have an opening for an highly motivated Ph.D student to work on AI-based security and privacy analysis in mobile and wearable ecosystems with a fellowship supported by the Italian National Cybesecurity Agency. Send an email with your resume and a brief research statement to Prof. Elena Ferrari, if interested.

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  • MalRec: A Blockchain-based Malware Recovery Framework for Internet of Things

    STRICT SociaLab members Prof. Elena Ferrari, Prof. Barbara Carminati, Ahmed Lekssays, and Giorgia Sirigu have published their new paper entitled: “MalRec: A Blockchain-based Malware Recovery Framework for Internet of Things” in the Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2022). The following is the abstract of the new publication: IoT…

  • A Risk Estimation Mechanism for Android Apps based on Hybrid Analysis

    STRICT SociaLab members Prof. Elena Ferrari, Prof. Barbara Carminati, and Ha Xuan Son have published their new paper entitled: “A Risk Estimation Mechanism for Android Apps based on Hybrid Analysis” in the Data Science and Engineering journal. The following is the abstract of the new publication: Mobile apps represent essential tools in our daily routines,…

  • Prof. Elena Ferrari Received the SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award at CCS 2021

    Prof. Elena Ferrari Received the SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award at Computer and Communications Security 2021 for her outstanding research contributions and leadership in data security and privacy for the past 25 years. Congratulations to Prof. Ferrari!

  • PAutoBotCatcher: A blockchain-based privacy-preserving botnet detector for Internet of Things

    STRICT SociaLab members Prof. Elena Ferrari, Prof. Barbara Carminati, and Ahmed Lekssays have published their new paper entitled: “PAutoBotCatcher: A blockchain-based privacy-preserving botnet detector for Internet of Things” at Computer Networks journal. The following is the abstract of the new publication: Botnets have become a major threat in the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, due…

  • STRICT SociaLab members participated in RAIS Summer School on Edge computing and Blockchain

    STRICT SociaLab members Ahmed Lekssays and Ha Xuan Son participated in the RAIS summer school on Edge Computing and Blockchain organized by FORTH in Heraklion, Greece where they shared their research updates with RAIS fellows, RAIS partners, and FORTH students.

  • University of Insubria organized the Security, Privacy and Trust for Wearable Devices Workshop

    STRICT SociaLab organized the “Security, Privacy and Trust for Wearable Devices” workshop in the framework of RAIS project. The workshop was held in Heraklion, Greece on September 9-10, 2021 as a part of RAIS activities that involved a summer school and an entrepreneurship workshop. The following is the program with the speakers and their presentations’…

  • LiMNet: Early-Stage Detection of IoT Botnets with Lightweight Memory Networks

    STRICT SociaLab members Prof. Elena Ferrari, Prof. Barbara Carminati, and Ahmed Lekssays have published their new paper entitled: “LiMNet: Early-Stage Detection of IoT Botnets with Lightweight Memory Networks” at ESORICS 2021 with a collaboration with Dr. Šarūnas Girdzijauskas and Lodovico Giaretta from KTH Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden in the framework of the RAIS project.…

  • Blockchain-based Privacy Enforcement in the IoT domain

    STRICT SociaLab members Prof. Elena Ferrari, Prof. Barbara Carminati, and Federico Daidone have published their new paper entitled: “Blockchain-based Privacy Enforcement in the IoT domain” at the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. The following is the abstract of the new publication: The Internet of Things (IoT) pervades our lives every day and has…

  • Prof. Elena Ferrari has been named ACM Fellow

    We gladly announce that Prof. Elena Ferrari has been named  ACM Fellow, which is one of the most prestigious awards in CS. Congratulations to Prof. Elena Ferrari !

  • Call For Papers on “Digital Trust: Trust Management in the Cyberspace”

    Call For Papers on “Digital Trust: Trust Management in the Cyberspace” issue. Editors: Prof. Elena Ferrari and Bhavani Thuraisingham

  • Prof. Ferrari has received the prestigious “Test of time” award from Canada, 2019

    Prof. Ferrari has received the prestigious “Test of time” award from Canada, 2019

    Prof. Elena Ferrari has received the prestigious “Test of time” award from Canada for the article ” a semantic web-based framework for social network access control “. This work has been done by a collaboration between Prof. Elena Ferrari, Prof. Barbara Carminati and a cybersecurity research group of the University of Texas. Congratulations to Prof.…

  • Elena Ferrari has received the CODASPY Innovative and Lasting Research Award, 2019

    Prof. Ferrari has got CODASPY Innovative and Lasting Research Award, 2019, for lasting and pioneering research contributions to data and applications security and privacy: from novel access control models in the 1990s to trust models and privacy preserving data management in the 2000s to secure social media in the 2010s. Congratulations to Prof. Ferrari !

  • Kickoff Meeting of the CONCORDIA EU Project

    2nd kickoff within the same month! Kickoff meeting of the EU CONCORDIA research project took place on January 28th – 29th in Munich.

  • Call for Ph.D. Candidates

    The lab is looking for highly-motivated PhD students, especially students interested in privacy, security, blockchain for Iot.  The positions are available within Marie Curie ITN RAIS  project. Check RAIS-INSUB-ESR4 and RAIS-INSUB-ESR7 for further information.

  • Kickoff meeting of the RAIS EU Project

    Nice starting of 2019 with the kickoff meeting in Como of our new EU Marie Curie project RAIS: real-time analytics for the Internet of Sports.

  • Elena Ferrari Nominated one of the 2018 Italian Inspiring Fifty

    Elena Ferrari has been nominated one of the 50 most influential Italian tech women — inspiringfifty.

  • Best paper award

    We got the paper award for the paper G. Sagirlar, B. Carminati, E. Ferrari. AutoBotCatcher: Blockchain-based P2P Botnet Detection for the Internet of Things,  IEEE CIC 2018.Congratulations to the authors!