FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

The new guide, "A Fuzz Testing Introduction with CC-specific Guidance" of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), produced by Fraunhofer FOKUS on behalf of the BSI, deals with fuzz testing, also called fuzzing. Fuzzing follows a negative testing approach that aims at detecting implementation errors of software with effects on robustness and security.

At the International Semantic Web Conference 2021 (ISWC-2021), the paper "A Native and Adaptive Approach for Unified Processing of Linked Streams and Linked Data" achieved 2nd place for the "SWSA Ten-Year Award" with an honourable mention. Authors include FOKUS Institute director and TU Berlin professor Manfred Hauswirth and FOKUS / TU Berlin researcher Dr Danh Le-Phuoc.

The open-source community mourns the passing of Jörg Schilling, who died unexpectedly. Schilling was a passionate software developer and researcher. An original with his heart in the right place. He had been employed by FOKUS since 1995. His career is characterized by his commitment to numerous open-source projects, where he also played a major role in developing.

What has remained of the great blockchain hype? In their new publication, the Competence Center Public IT (ÖFIT) at Fraunhofer FOKUS, together with the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, takes stock.

The Corona pandemic saw a shift of teaching and learning into the digital space. For learners and teachers, this presented several organizational, technical, and didactic challenges. In particular, the numerous stand-alone solutions offered by various educational institutions made it difficult for users to take full advantage of digital learning. 

To ensure that warnings in extremely dangerous situations sound even when the sound is turned off, the warning app KATWARN activates the “critical alarm” function and is now providing a free update for this purpose.