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Update of our participation in EU Research Projects

Our team, which operates under the University of Piraeus Research Center (UPRC), is currently working on the following projects, that are funded by the EU Programmes of Horizon H2020 and Horizon Europe.   The overarching goal of INCOGNITO (IdeNtity verifiCatiOn with privacy-preservinG credeNtIals for anonymous access To Online services) is to combine state-of-the-art technologies in […]

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NetPHISH Poster

The poster of the NetPHISH project is now available. NetPHISH is a Greek state project (Operational Programme Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2014-2020 (EPAnEK)) with Grant Agreement number: Τ1ΕΔΚ-05112.

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Re-cent Poster

The poster of the Re-cent project is now available. Re-cent is a Greek state project (Operational Programme Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2014-2020 (EPAnEK)) with Grant Agreement number: Τ1ΕΔΚ-03524.

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SSL on European Researcher’s Night

The European Researcher’s Night is a Europe-wide public event, which displays the diversity of science and its impact on citizens’ daily lives in fun, inspiring ways. The event was held partly online on 24 and 25 September 2021 and conceived by the European Commission with the aim of spreading scientific culture. Among the academic institutions […]

THE DIGITAL IMMUNITY PASSPORT ON ATHENS SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2021

A three-day festival dedicated to science, technology, innovation with sixty online action slots, fifty top speakers from eight countries, three Nobel Prize winners, one hundred demonstration experiments, celebrity science, chemistry shows, documentaries, free parallel actions for all, the Athens Science Festival 2021 took place on March 27 – 29. The virtual event was held by […]

The Greek App Developed in Collaboration with SSL which will Allow Travelling Again

The Systems Security Laboratory Team, under the coordination of Professor Christos Xenakis from the Department of Digital Systems of Piraeus University, presented their solution to the complex equation of opening the borders and the initiation of international travel. The Hellenic proposal includes a digital immunity passport, based on the revolutionary blockchain technology, which will help […]

Be an Active Contributor in Our Research

During the recent pandemic and the unprecedented changes in the way the world operates, there is an increase in email use (app. 20% increase in opening rates) that correspondingly increases the risk of a cyberattack. It has been reported that phishing email attacks involving the COVID-19 as lure increased by 667% between the period of February 2020 and March 2020. […]

CUREX On The European Big Data Value Forum 2020

On 5th November, Professor Christos Xenakis from the Department of Digital Systems of Piraeus University, as Project coordinator of CUREX had the opportunity to present the project on European Big Data Value Forum 2020 (EBDVF). The clustering event was held online, and Professor participated in the session of EBDVF Health Track: On Health Data Spaces […]

2nd Cyber Insurance & Incident Response Conference

The 2nd Cyber ​​Insurance & Incident Response Conference 2020 was held virtually on 5th November, the digital conference through the LiveOn which is an exhibition platform. Honored guests from both, business and academia had the opportunity to participate in the Online conference brighten up with useful information the discussions based on their field of specialization. […]

A Research about Cloud Security Issues 2020

The Systems Security Laboratory (SSL) of the University of Piraeus and Professor Christos Xenakis participated in a research conducted by the company Pylones Hellas in the context of the effort for a continuous and thorough understanding of the conditions prevailing in digital security on the subject of cloud computing security. The aim of the research “The […]

Cyberspace, Cybersecurity and Business

Professor Christos Xenakis Department of Digital Systems University of Piraeus The continuous development of computer science and communication technologies has infiltrated in every aspect of our lives, affecting the development in the modern world. The growth of E-Business and the modernization of Public Administration (E-Government) for citizens is an example that society is facing a […]

Significant Distinction for the Postgraduate Program in Digital Systems Security

Significant distinction for the Postgraduate Program in “Digital Systems Security” of the Department of Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus. The program is included once again in the list of the 100 CyberSecurity Courses that exist in Europe and it is the only one in the region of Attica. The primary purpose for the […]

‘Think Before U Click’: Raising awareness during the Cybersecurity Month

This October is the 8th European Cyber ​​Security Month (ECSM) to raise online security awareness about threats and malicious cyber-attacks. The cyber awareness campaign is coordinated by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and the European Commission with the aim of promoting cybersecurity among EU Citizens and organizations through training and the exchange of […]

SSL organized the DeSECSys Workshop in the framework of ESORICS 2020

Member of the Systems Security Laboratory organized on September 17th, 2020, the 1st Workshop on Dependability and Safety Emerging Cloud and Fog Systems (DeSECSyS) under the framework of ESORICS 2020. The clustering event was held online via Zoom, and our team members supported the event both as participants and presenters. The workshop, under the coordinated […]

CityZen Project

  The development of the Internet of Things (IοT) has boosted entrepreneurship in a variety of market sectors, such as the sector of smart cities. IοT solutions for smart cities refer to a long list of applications, including: parking management, side road lights control, pollution / temperature monitoring, and many others. Already, some of these […]

European Cyber Security Challenge 2020

For the 5th consecutive year, we are happy to announce the Greek participation in the European Cyber Security Challenge 2020 (ECSC20), which will take place 3-7 November 2020 in Vienna, Austria. The competition is an initiative of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and it is actively supported by the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance. […]

“Athens Calling” For Cyber Security

The future of digital security was discussed by Prof. Christos Xenakis and Demosthenes Economou, Head of Operational Security Unit of ENISA, in the “Athens Calling” broadcast on Greek National Radio (Proto Programma – ERT). The honorable guests, along with the radio host, participated in a two-hour conversation about the risks of the Internet, the digital […]

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SSL in the new H2020 project “CUREX”

CUREX: seCUre and pRivate hEalth data eXchange Innovative solutions for protecting health data Systems Security Laboratory is coordinating a new project entitled “CUREX: seCUre and pRivate hEalth data eXchange”, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 826404. CUREX aims at enabling secure and authorized […]

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UPRC Participate at the SECONDO Project

University of Piraeus Research Center participated at the kick-off meeting of the SECONDO project which is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action. UPRC will participate and will be the project coordinator as well as the technical and innovation coordinator. UPRC will take advantage of the exchange program to perform joint processing and publications where possible. The staff of […]

SealedGRID

Scalable, trustEd, and interoperAble pLatform for sEcureD smart GRID The SealedGRID is an innovative platform, that builds on a realistic architectural image of industrial installations considering the special characteristics of energy infrastructures, their cyber and physical requirements. The SealedGRID is expected to contribute to the fulfilment of the objective of efficient operation of critical infrastructure, […]

Drogkaris P., Gritzalis S., Lambrinoudakis C., “Transforming the Greek e-Government Environment towards the e-Gov 2.0 Era”, Proceedings of the EGOVIS’10 International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, K. N. Andersedn, et al. (Eds.), pp. 142 -149, Springer LNCS 6267, Bilbao, Spain, September 2010.

Tsohou A., Lambrinoudakis C., Kokolakis S., Gritzalis S., “The Importance of Context Dependant Privacy Requirements and Perceptions to the Design of Privacy Aware Systems”, The European Journal of the Informatics Professional (UPGrade, www.upgrade-cepis.org), Special Issue: Privacy and Identity Management, Vol. xi, No. 1, pp.32-37, also in Novatica journal, Issue 202 (www.ati.es/novatica), 2010.

Tsohou A., Kokolakis S., Lambrinoudakis C., Gritzalis S., «Information Systems Security Management: A review and a classification of the ISO standards», Proceedings of the e-Democracy 2009 – 3rd Conference on Electronic Democracy – Next Generation Society: Technological and Legal Issues, A. Sideridis (Ed.), Springer Lecture Notes of the ICSSIT Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics […]

Yiannakopoulos A., Lambrinoudakis C., Gritzalis S., Xanthopoulos S., Katsikas S., “Modeling Privacy Insurance Contracts and Their Utilization in Risk Management for ICT Firms”, Proceedings of the 13th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security – ESORICS 2008, Jajodia S., Lopez J. (Eds), pp. 207-222, Springer LNCS 5283, Malaga, Spain, October 2008.

Drogkaris P., Geneiatakis D., Lambrinoudakis C., Gritzalis S., “Towards an Enhanced Authentication Framework in eGovernment: The Greek case”, EGOV’08 – 7th International Conference on Electronic Government, M. Wimmer et al. (Eds.), Trauner Proceedings (Proceedings on ongoing research, projects, and general development issues), Turin, Italy, September 2008.

Drogkaris P., Geneiatakis D., Lambrinoudakis C., Gritzalis S., “Towards an Enhanced Authentication Framework in eGovernment: The Greek case”, EGOV’08 – 7th International Conference on Electronic Government, M. Wimmer et al. (Eds.), Trauner Proceedings (Proceedings on ongoing research, projects, and general development issues), Turin, Italy, September 2008.

Geneiatakis D., Lambrinoudakis C., “A Cost-Effective Mechanism for Protecting SIP Based Internet Telephony Services Against Signaling Attacks”, Proceedings of the IMS and Mobile Multimedia Workshop, in conjunction with the 4th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference – MobiMedia 2008, ACM International Conference Proceedings, Oulu, Finland, 2008.

Geneiatakis D., Lambrinoudakis C., “A Cost-Effective Mechanism for Protecting SIP Based Internet Telephony Services Against Signaling Attacks”, Proceedings of the IMS and Mobile Multimedia Workshop, in conjunction with the 4th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference – MobiMedia 2008, ACM International Conference Proceedings, Oulu, Finland, 2008.

Geneiatakis D., Dagiuklas A., Lambrinoudakis C., Kambourakis G., Gritzalis S., “Novel Protecting Mechanism for SIP-Based Infrastructure against Malformed Message Attacks: Performance Evaluation Study” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP’06), M. Logothetis et al. (Eds), Patras, Greece, July 2006.

Geneiatakis D., Dagiuklas A., Lambrinoudakis C., Kambourakis G., Gritzalis S., “Novel Protecting Mechanism for SIP-Based Infrastructure against Malformed Message Attacks: Performance Evaluation Study” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP’06), M. Logothetis et al. (Eds), Patras, Greece, July 2006.

Gymnopoulos L., Karyda M., Balopoulos T., Dritsas S., Kokolakis S., Lambrinoudakis C., Gritzalis S., “Developing a Security Patterns Repository for Secure Applications Design”, Proceedings of the ECIW 2006 5th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security, D. Remenyi et al. (Eds.), pp. 51-60, published by ACL Academic Conferences Limited, Helsinki, Finland, June 2006.

Karyda M., Balopoulos T., Dritsas S., Gymnopoulos L., Kokolakis S., Lambrinoudakis C., Gritzalis S., “An Ontology for Secure e-Government Applications”, Proceedings of the DeSeGov’06 Workshop on Dependability and Security in eGovernment (in conjunction with ARES 2006 1st International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security), A. Tjoa, E. Schweighofer (Eds.), pp. 1033-1037, IEEE Computer Society Press, […]

Katsikas S., Yannacopoulos A., Gritzalis S., Lambrinoudakis C., Hatzopoulos P., “How much should we pay for security?”, Proceedings of the IFIP WG 11.1 and WG 11.5 Joint Working Conference on Security Management, Integrity, and Internal Control in Information Systems, P. Dowland, S. Furnell, B. Thuraisingham, X. C. Wang (Eds.), pp.59-70, Vol.193, Springer, Fairfax, USA, December […]

Katsikas S., Yannacopoulos A., Gritzalis S., Lambrinoudakis C., Hatzopoulos P., “How much should we pay for security?”, Proceedings of the IFIP WG 11.1 and WG 11.5 Joint Working Conference on Security Management, Integrity, and Internal Control in Information Systems, P. Dowland, S. Furnell, B. Thuraisingham, X. C. Wang (Eds.), pp.59-70, Vol.193, Springer, Fairfax, USA, December […]

Dritsas S., Gymnopoulos L., Karyda M., Balopoulos T., Kokolakis S., Lambrinoudakis C., Gritzalis S., “Employing Ontologies for the Development of Security Critical Applications: The Secure e-Poll Paradigm”, Proceedings of the IFIP I3E International Conference on eBusiness, eCommerce, and eGovernemnt, Funabashi M., Grzech A. (Eds.), pp.187-201, Springer, Poznan, Poland, October 2005.

Dritsas S., Mallios J., Gritzalis D., Lambrinoudakis C., “Applicability of Privacy Enhancing Technologies in Ubiquitous Computing Environments”, Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services ICPS 2005 – Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Trust in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing SecPerU’05, P. Georgiadis, S. Gritzalis, Y. Marias (Eds.), pp. 61-70, Diaylos Press, Santorini, Greece, […]

Geneiatakis D., Kambourakis G., Dagiouklas A., Lambrinoudakis C., Gritzalis S., “SIP Message Tampering: The SQL code INJECTION attack”, Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Software Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2005), N. Rozic et al. (Eds.), pp. 176-181, IEEE Press, Split, Croatia, September 2005.

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