Automated Social Engineering Back in 2009, I published my master’s thesis on Automated Social Engineering (ASE). The core idea was simple: combine chatbots with data from social networks to make social engineering attacks fully automated. At the time, the poor quality of automated conversations was the main limitation. Automated Social Engineering Became Practical Today, that […]
Category: research
A personal 3 year retrospective Since more than three years I left academia and joined adidas Runtastic as an information security engineer. In this blog posts I discuss what made me move to industry and what I learned so far. After finishing my masters in Stockholm, I worked in academia for almost 10 years. This […]
My security research in 2016 focused on two broad categories: measurement-, and usability-studies. In this blog post, I briefly discuss the four most important papers we published in these domains in 2016. Data-driven security and measurement studies The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol is the building block of secure web communication. A number of important […]