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ERCIM News 143

January 2026

Special theme AI for Science

Guest editors Edina Nemeth (SZTAKI) and Alexandre Termier (University of Rennes – Inria/IRISA, France)

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SmartCityHub, an Enabler for Trusted AI Solutions

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SmartCityHub acts as a structured bridge between cities and AI solutions providers through a multi-phase lifecycle designed to minimise risk and maximize scalability. It provides a testing platform within a controlled environment and ensures regulatory compliance and safety before deployment.

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Analyzing Social Engineering Automation 

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by Dominik Dana (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences), Sebastian Schrittwieser (University of Vienna, JRC AsTra), Peter Kieseberg (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences)

In order to analyse the practical capabilities and limitations of automated social engineering, we conducted a practical study covering more than 140 open-source tools. In order to achieve comparability, we provided an abstract model based on extracting the relevant aspects of the most important attack modelling frameworks.

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