As I found out, I hadn’t written any posts in the last 12 months. This despite the fact that we had published some interesting papers and three (?) Incidents happened at LastPass. The latter obviously has to do with one of my research topics, identity management. Maybe I’ll write a blog post about it soon. […]
Due to the ongoing digitization and the amount of information, many people are much closer to what is happening in Ukraine than in previous wars. In addition to masses of posts on social media, there are many different sites that collect and analyze different information as comprehensively as possible, e.g., MapHub and Ukraine Live Map. […]
The eIDAS regulation came to life in 2014. Now it looks like decentralized identities (self-sovereign identities) for eIDs will follow. The idea is interesting: the user is in control of their identities. So far, however, self-sovereign identities has been a research topic and have hardly been tested in real-world. This raises the question which lessons […]
By using the Internet and its services, such as social media, we leave behind data about ourselves. This data can potentially be used for attacks. For example, bloggers’ addresses and vacation times can be found and used for theft. Even pseudonyms can be correlated if things go wrong. It is, therefore, important to think in […]
Identity theft refers to the misuse of personal data, such as ID number, address, or credit card number, of a natural person by third parties. This can happen not only in the analog world, but also digitally, for example, through successful phishing attacks.