SC2Share: Smart Contract for Secure Car Sharing

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecuritySC2Share: Smart Contract for Secure Car SharingAkash Madhusudan, Symeonidis Iraklis, A. Mustafa Mustafa, Preneel Bart, Zhang RenAbstract:This paper presents an efficient solution for the booking and payments functionality of a car sharing system that allows individuals to share their personal, underused cars in a completely decentralized manner, annulling the need … Continued

Towards Systematic Specification of Non-Functional Requirements for Sharing Economy Services

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityTowards Systematic Specification of Non-Functional Requirements for Sharing Economy ServicesIraklis Symeonidis ; Jessica Schroers ; Mustafa A. Mustafa ; Gergely BiczókAbstract:Sharing Economy (SE) systems use technologies to enable sharing of physical assets and services among individuals. This allows optimisation of resources, thus contributing to the re-use principle of Circular Economy. … Continued

Proactive Legal Design: Embedding Values in the Design of Legal Artefacts

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityProactive Legal Design: Embedding Values in the Design of Legal ArtefactsRossi Arianna, Haapio HelenaAbstract:Legal Design is an umbrella term for merging forward-looking legal thinking with design think- ing. It applies human-centered design to prevent or solve legal problems. Legal Design takes an interdisciplinary and proactive approach to law, covering not … Continued

Legal Design Patterns: Towards A New Language for Legal Information Design

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityLegal Design Patterns: Towards A New Language for Legal Information DesignRossi Arianna, Ducato Rossana, Haapio Helena, Passera Stefania Abstract:Patterns are a central tool in legal design. They are conceptual schemes or entities describing solutions to a recurring legal problem, helping to make contracts, disclosures and policies accessible to users and … Continued

When Design Met Law: Design Patterns for Information Transparency

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityWhen Design Met Law: Design Patterns for Information TransparencyRossi Arianna, Ducato Rossana, Haapio Helena, Passera Stefania Abstract:The problems of online disclosures, notices, and terms are well-known and documented. Research and experience tell us that consumers dislike and do not read them. Much less has been said and done about the … Continued

Formalizing GDPR provisions in rei ed I/O logic: the DAPRECO knowledge base

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityFormalizing GDPR provisions in rei ed I/O logic: the DAPRECO knowledge baseRobaldo Livio, Bartolini Cesare, Lenzini Gabriele, Rossi Arianna, Palmirani Monica, Martoni Michele Abstract:The DAPRECO knowledge base is the main outcome of the interdisciplinary project bearing the same name (https://www.fnr.lu/projects/data-protection-regulation-compliance). It is a repository of rules written in LegalRuleML, an … Continued

Dark Patterns: Deception or Simply Bad Design?

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityDark Patterns: Deception or Simply Bad Design?Rossi Arianna, Lenzini Gabriele, Koenig Vincent, Bongard KerstinAbstract: Lately, researchers, journalists, and regulators are devoting attention to dark patterns, defined as "design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering or deceiving users into making decisions that, if fully informed and capable of … Continued

Case Study: Analysis and Mitigation of a Novel Sandbox-Evasion Technique

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityCase Study: Analysis and Mitigation of a Novel Sandbox-Evasion TechniqueZiya Alper Genç, Gabriele Lenzini, Daniele SgandurraAbstract:Malware is one of the most popular cyber-attack methods in the digital world. According to the independent test company AV-TEST, 350,000 new malware samples are created every day. To analyze all samples by hand to … Continued

On Deception-Based Protection Against Cryptographic Ransomware

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityOn Deception-Based Protection Against Cryptographic RansomwareZiya Alper Genç, Gabriele Lenzini, Daniele SgandurraAbstract:In order to detect malicious file system activity, some commercial and academic anti-ransomware solutions implement deception-based techniques, specifically by placing decoy files among user files. While this approach raises the bar against current ransomware, as any access to a … Continued

Sistemi Medici e Conformità Legale

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecuritySistemi Medici e Conformità LegaleBartolini Cesare, Lenzini GabrieleAbstract:The present document addresses the topic of legal compliance of medical systems, that is, hardware and software devices medically used on people for clinical tests, diagnosis, study, and similar purposes, mainly with respect to EU law. The work briefly overviews the applicable laws … Continued