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 online social networks to fully automate social engineering attacks. At the time, the poor quality of automated conversations was the main limitation. 2020s: Automated Social Engineering Became Practical Today, […]
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 […]