Seventeen new projects strengthen NGI Pilots

▸ For more details see: https://nlnet.nl/project/TALER-Fastify Verified boot technologies like "Secure Boot" enforce system security by requiring the booted operating system to be trusted by the system administrator or hardware vendor, but existing approaches for NixOS and other general-purpose Linux distributions only validate the kernel and the "stage 1" software used in early boot. It supports recent and upcoming Android versions through modular interception layers and offers hooking capabilities at both the Java and native levels, enabling advanced analysis, instrumentation, and security experimentation within a controlled environment. ▸ For more details see: https://nlnet.nl/project/VirtuAndroid The Apkpatcher and pyaxml tools suite is used to analyze, unpack and pack APKs (the Android file format for applications) and also AXML and ARSC files used inside these packages to store data and metadata. The core strategy is to be able to have a simple and modular way to manipulate these three formats for security reasons: to audit parsers, to audit applications (thanks to some features added to sniff the traffic or automatize some test directly by injecting code inside the APK) or to remove some trackers from an APK for privacy reasons. By simplifying data collection and consensual sharing of forensic artifacts with partner organizations, Bugbane aims to reach users who are typically outside established support networks, contributing to a broader and more accurate understanding of threats targeting civil society. The NGI pilot programmes NGI Taler, NGI Fediversity and NGI Mobifree are possible with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology.