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Automated Social Engineering Bot – PASSAT 2009

Post author By markus
Post date 2009-06-13
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I got a paper on my Automated Social Engineering Bot accepted at the PASSAT 2009 conference. I’ll post the camery-ready version soon. 🙂

Tags academia, ASE, ASE bot, automated social engineering, Canada, chat, conference, deception, Facebook, paper, passat, PASSAT09, privacy, publication, python, security, Securitzy, social engineering, Vancouver

ASE random security

An end is in sight …

I’m writing the last pages of my master’s thesis on Automated Social Engineering and should present my work soon. Once it’s done I’m also planning to post a digitial version online on my blog.

Tags ASE, automated social engineering, chat, computer security, Facebook, Facebook bot, information, Infosec research, privacy, python, rdf, security, social engineering

25c3 security

25C3

Post author By markus
Post date 2008-12-29
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Attending the Chaos Communication Congress for the first time this year, I must say it’s rather exciting so far. The presentations have been outstanding, especially the one by Jacob Appelbaum on the Cold Boot Attack, and TCP Denial of Service Vulnerabilities by Fabian Yamaguchi. Vienna seems to be well represented here in Berlin, with Metalab […]

Tags 25c3, austria, berlin, ccc, chaos Communication congress, coldboot, culture, hacker, hackerspaces, linux, metalab, openbsd, privacy, security, society, vienna