We’re going to PerCom18 to Athens

IEEE PerCom is established as the premier annual scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications and also acts as a platform for several workshops.

The Department of Applied Informatics (AINF) contributes to two workshops of PerCom 2018 (19.-23. March 2018 in Athens):

  • SmarterAAL (Advanced Technologies for Smarter Assisted Living solutions)
  • CoMoRea (Context and Activity Modeling and Recognition)

For details see the draft program of PerCom18.

 

March 1st: Applied Informatics – information event for first semester students

When: March 1st 2018, 2 p.m.

Where:   HS C, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Read more →

MA work completed: Holistic Approach to detect Phishing Websites

Author: Marco Madritsch

Supervisor: Peter Schartner (AINF/syssec)

In cooperation with: Marcus Hassler (econob)

A phishing attack attempts to encourage the victim to reveal sensitive information by the use of fake massages and manipulated websites. This thesis deals with the conception and prototypical development of a holistic approach in order to detect phishing websites. The architecture consists of a client-side browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and a server-side RESTful web service (see Figure 1). The implemented analysis process comprises a total of six superordinate analysis steps and evaluates a website on the one hand on the basis of certain heuristics and on the other hand on the basis of a classifier and the individual surfing behavior pattern of the respective user. The results of the prototype evaluation showed an accuracy of 84.17%, with a sensitivity of 78.13% and a specificity of 90.22%.

Figure 1: Architecture of the Anti-Phishing Concept

Search for a Student Assistant !!!

We are looking for a Student Assistant

(computer science or information management) in the AAU’s data protection project.

Employment rate 8h/week (from now until September 2018).

Tasks: Insertion of data in the register of processing activities.

Expected knowledge: German

There is a lot to do, but there is more to learn!

Contact: Peter Schartner