Event

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The internship "Security, Usability and Society" will cover topics both of usable security and privacy programming, and how to conduct user studies. To reserve a place, please, register on hte WiWi portal and send an email with your chosen topic, plus a back-up one, to melanie.volkamer@kit.edu . Topics are assigned first-come-first-served until all of them are filled. Topics in italics have been already assigned.

Important dates:

Kick-off: 11.10.2021, 11:30-12:30 CET in Microsoft Teams - Link

Report + code submission : 06.02.2022, 23:59 CET

Presentation deadline : 06.02.2022, 23:59 CET

Presentation day: 08.02.2022

Topics:

Privacy Friendly apps

In this subject, students complete an app (or an extension of an app) among our Privacy-Friendly Apps. Please click the following link to know more about them:  https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/105.php . Students are provided with a point list of goals, containing both basic features mandatory to pass the course and more advanced ones that heighten the final grade.

• Notes 2.0

Programming Usable Security Intervention

In this subject, students develop a part of coding, an extension, or another programming task dealing with various usable security interventions, eg as an extension. Eg TORPEDO (  https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/TORPEDO.php  ) or PassSec + (  https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/PassSecPlus.php  ). Just as before, students are provided with a point list of goals, containing both basic features mandatory to pass the course and more advanced ones that heighten the final grade.

• Password Manager Enrolment Add-On
• Portfolio Graphical Recognition-Based Passwords with Gamepads
• Cookie Consent Manager for Websites

Designing Security User studies (online studies only)

These topics are related to how to set up and conducting user studies of various types. This year, due to the Corona outbreak, we decided to conduct online studies only; otherwise, interviews and in lab studies would have been possible. At the end of the semester, the students present a report / paper and a talk in which they present their results.

• How to display URLs to support people's ability to detect phishing (English)
• Studying the Effect of Static vs. Dynamic Phishing Detection
• How effective are QR-scanners in helping users detecting phishing emails?

Please, note that registration is not required to participate in the kick-off meeting.

This event counts towards the KASTEL certificate. Further information on how to obtain the certificate can be found on the SECUSO website https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/Studium_und_Lehre.php) .