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Carmela Troncoso becomes a new scientific director at the MPI for Security and Privacy

From developing the SwissCovid tracing app to her work with the Red Cross, her aim is to understand and mitigate the impact of technology on society more

Project AT*SCALE takes inspiration from “in vivo” techniques in biology to fortify the world’s digital infrastructure against cyber attacks

Marcel Böhme won the ERC Consolidator Grant for the development of techniques to detect and repair security flaws in software systems at an arbitrary scale. more

The Consolidator Grantees of the MPG 2024 (from left to right): Marcel Böhme, Mario Flock, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, Mariana Rossi, Birgit Stiller, Henning Fenselau, Duarte Figueiredo, Valerie Hilgers, Andrea Martin.

In a European comparison, the MPG is in second place more

#socialmediascam: Short-form video content used for scamming users

Emerging adults are the target of scams on Short-Form Video Platforms such as TikTok and YouTube Shorts. MPI-SP’s Yixin Zou and Mainak Mondal from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur win the Google Academic Research Award to develop safeguards against these scams. more

New building for the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

The groundbreaking ceremony marked the start of construction for a new state-of-the-art building for security and privacy research more

Blue futuristic user interface with networked data displayed from the side with red user icons

Researchers analyze disinformation in social media and develop ways to promote facts and fair dialogue online more

From left to right: Dr. Roland Busch (Vorstandsvorsitzender Siemens), Prof. Tobias Beckurts, Prof. Christof Paar, Prof. Sibylle Günter (Wissenschaftliche Direktorin MPI für Plasmaphysik),
Daniel Beckurts, Prof. Christian Stegmann

Fotograf: Magnus Schult

The Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation recognizes MPI-SP founding Director Chrstiof Paar for “advancing practical implementations of security solutions in industry” more

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