The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

Do Cognitive Biases and Dark Patterns Affect the Legality of Consent Under the GDPR?
Joanna Taneva

Authentic Batteries: A Concept for a Battery Pass Based on PUF-enabled Certificates
Julian Blümke, Hans-Joachim Hof

Secure and Flexible Establishment of Temporary WLAN Access
Steffen Fries, Rainer Falk

AC-SIF: ACE Access Control for Standardized Secure IoT Firmware Updates
Joel Höglund, Anum Khurshid, Shahid Raza

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Longitudinal Study of Persistence Vectors (PVs) in Windows Malware: Evolution, Complexity, and Stealthiness
Nicholas Phillips, Aisha Ali-Gombe

Efficient Consensus Between Multiple Controllers in Software Defined Networks (SDN)
Stavroula Lalou, Georgios Spathoulas, Sokratis Katsikas

Digital Forensics Investigation of the Tesla Autopilot File System
Kevin Gomez Buquerin, Hans-Joachim Hof

Unsupervised Graph Contrastive Learning with Data Augmentation for Malware Classification
Yun Gao, Hirokazu Hasegawa, Yukiko Yamaguchi, Hajime Shimada

IDE Plugins for Secure Android Applications Development: Analysis and Classification Study
Mohammed El Amin Tebib, Mariem Graa, Oum-El-Kheir Aktouf, Pascal André

LIST: Lightweight Solutions for Securing IoT Devices against Mirai Malware Attack
Pallavi Kaliyar, Laszlo Erdodi, Sokratis Katsikas

BlockFW - Towards Blockchain-based Rule-Sharing Firewall
Wei-Yang Chiu, Weizhi Meng