Boldizsar Bencsath (Boldi) gives a talk on targeted attacks at the Security Analyst Summit organized by Kaspersky Lab.

The Duqu Detector Toolkit developed by CrySyS Lab was featured in the media. The article details the various heuristics used by the toolset, the pros and cons of using the tool and the possible implications for the attackers.

We participated in the Intenational Capture The Flag (iCTF) 2011 contest, and our team came in at the 36th position (out of 87).

The iCTF contest is a multi-site, multi-team hacking contest for students in which a number of teams compete independently against each other. It is organized by the University of California at Santa Barbara, and it is held once a year (usually at the beginning of December). It is important to emphesize that the iCTF contest serves educational purposes, in particular, students can learn a lot about computer security during the preparation for the contest.

Our team of 22 consisted of BSc and MSc students of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, as well as PhD students and some other members of BME's CrySyS Lab. This was the first (but surely not the last) time we participated at iCTF, and the first Hungarian team ever. It was fun!

More information about the theme of this year's game was given in a radio interview (in "Közelről" from 17:16 to 17:22).

We are thankful to evopro Ltd that sponsored our team.

Levente and Boldizsar represented the lab (and the university) at the CHIRON project meeting in Ljubljana. CHIRON is a large ARTEMIS project aiming at designing and experimenting with an integrated, person centric, electronic health management system. Our lab is leading a task on privacy enhancing techniques in the Body Area Sensor Network used for remote patient monitoring. Levente presented the lab's progress on the study of wireless traffic analysis techniques in BANs and possible countermeasures.

Recent founded spin-off from the Lab, Tresorium won the European semi-finals of Global Security Challenge and as European finalist gave a speech at MIT Enterprise Forum, Tel-Aviv, Israel. One week later, they also won the European semi-finals of Intel Challenge Europe in Sopot, Poland. More information can be found here in Hungarian.

In September 2011, a new spin-off company called Tresorium was founde by István Lám, Szilveszter Szebeni, András Eisenberger, and Levente Buttyán. Tresorium will deliver solutions for secure cloud computing, including an encrypted data storage system and other secured cloud applications.

WSAN4CIP, an EU FP7 project is getting closer to the end. We are currently working of the final demonstration which elaborates our RPL implementation. Tamás Holczer is currently leading the implementation efforts. The final demonstration covers a defense scenario for critical infrastructures, in our case a long water pipe and an electric grid. Tamás and Levente participated on the project meeting in Lulea, Sweden, and Tamás will also join the next meeting in Lisboa, Portugal in November 2011.

Amit Dvir presented our work "VeRA - Version Number and Rank Authentication in RPL" at the 7th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security, on October 17 in Valencia, Spain.

Prof. Ariel Orda, professor at Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa, Israel visited us for informal discussions to exploring joint research interests. Our brainstorming resulted in interesting ideas of applying game theory and strategic optimization to information security problems.