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    Keyless entry: convenient, but at what cost?

    When it comes to convenience and comfort, car manufacturers take the design of automobile features very seriously. But it’s precisely these well-meant elements, such as drive by wire tech, hands-free Bluetooth connectivity, and keyless entry, that have proved vulnerable.

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    Best Paper Award for Novel Approach to Wireless Spectrum Shortage

    We can’t see them, but the radio frequencies used for wireless communication, whether via satellites or cellular networks, are some of the world’s most valuable resources. And they are finite.

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    New Machine Learning Methods Prevent Cyber-espionage

    IT systems are no longer modelled on castles, with high walls and a portcullis over the gate. Instead, security teams have accepted that determined attackers will find a way in, and now spend as much time on being able to identify attackers and prevent them from being able to do any damage while they are…

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    You Are Welcome: A Guide for Refugees

    The smartphone – one of the most important resources for a refugee. It helps them stay in touch with family back home and it is also a way to stay abreast of current affairs or talk with other refugees. On another note, smartphones provide access to the Internet and, consequently, to information portals of local…

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    Faites-vous scanner en 3D à la Belle Etoile!

    Les chercheurs de l’Université du Luxembourg travaillent sur la modélisation 3D du futur et ils ont besoin de votre aide !

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    Privacy Flag: an EU-funded Project Success Story

    It’s early days for the GDPR, but the regulation, along with recent high-profile cases such as the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica fallout, has already had a big impact on the public consciousness. People who previously had little awareness of how companies were harvesting their data are now waking up to the extent to we give away personal…

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    SnT Enters into Collaborative Fintech Agreement with LHoFT

    The Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology Foundation (LHoFT) to develop research and collaborate on projects within the field of fintech for the benefit of Luxembourg’s financial services community.

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    Go Big or go Home: SnT Partnership Day Attracts High-Stakes Crowd

    Partnership Day is our flagship event celebrating research collaborations with public and private partners in Luxembourg. This year’s edition drew over 350 attendees from international industry and local public institutions. Here’s what happened at #PDAY2018 over a jam-packed Tuesday in Mondorf-les-Bains.

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    Testing the untestable

    It’s the same for everything from smartphones to cars: every product has to be tested before it leaves the factory. But in complex systems, which integrate large amounts of hardware and software, the component interactions often become untestable. “For these systems, conventional software tests would take too long and cost too much,” says SnT researcher…

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    One month until the GDPR – what themes are emerging?

    This is it. We are now officially less than a month away from the application of the new European General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, on May 25. In the last few months, the acronym has been on everyone’s lips, and with good reason, given that the Regulation has a comprehensive impact on companies and…

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