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• Attacks and Defenses in Computer Security / 192.111 / UE
• Bachelor Thesis / 192.061 / PR
• Cryptocurrencies / 192.065 / VU
• Introduction to Cryptography / 192.108 / UE
• Introduction to Cryptography / 192.107 / VO
• Orientation Bachelor with Honors of Informatics and Business Informatics / 180.767 / SE
• Project in Computer Science 1 / 192.075 / PR
• Project in Computer Science 2 / 192.076 / PR
• Research Seminar LogiCS / 184.767 / SE
• Seminar for PhD Students / 192.069 / SE
• Seminar on Security (Formal Methods for Security and Privacy) / 192.114 / SE
• Systems and Applications Security / 192.112 / VU

• Cryptographic Foundations of Privacy in Distributed Ledgers
  2020 – 2027 / Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWFT)
• IoTIO: Analyzing and Understanding the Internet of Insecure Things
  2020 – 2024 / Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWFT)
• Security and Privacy Foundations of Blockchain Technologies
  2020 – 2021 / SBA Research gemeinnützige GmbH
• Vienna Cybersecurity and Privacy Research Center
  2019 – 2023 / Vienna Business Agency (WAW)
• Cryptographic Foundations for Future-proof Internet Security
  2019 – 2022 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
• Security and Privacy for Payment-Channel Networks
  2019 – 2020 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
• Foundations and Tools for Client-Side Web Security
  2018 – 2023 / European Research Council (ERC)
• Privacy-Preserving Regulatory Technologies for Distributed Ledger Technologies
  2018 – 2021 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
• Scalability for Lightning Networks
  2018 – 2020 / Chaincode Labs Inc
• Ethertrust - Trustworthy smart contracts
  2018 – 2019 / netidee.at

2019

• Group ORAM for Privacy and AccessControl in Outsourced Personal Records / M. Maffei, G. Malavolta, M. Reinert, D. Schröder / Journal of Computer Security, vol. 27 (2019), no. 1; 1 - 47
• Postcards from the Post-HTTP World: Amplification of HTTPS Vulnerabilities in the Web Ecosystem / S. Calzavara, R. Focardi, M. Nemec, A. Rabitti, M. Squarcina / in: "2019 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)", issued by: IEEE; IEEE, 2019, ISBN: 978-1-5386-6661-6, 281 - 298
• Reducing Automotive Counterfeiting usingBlockchain: Benefits and Challenges / D. Lu, P. Moreno-Sanchez, A. Zeryihun, S. Bajpayi, S. Yin, K. Feldman, J. Kosofsky, P. Mitra, A. Kate / in: "2019 IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPCON)", issued by: IEEE; IEEE Computer Society, USA, 2019, ISBN: 978-1-7281-1264-0, 39 - 48
• Gathering of robots in a ring with mobile faults / S. Das, R. Focardi, F. Luccio, E. Markou, M. Squarcina / Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 764 (2019), Volume 764; 42 pages
• Atomic Multi-Channel Updates with Constant Collateralin Bitcoin-Compatible Payment-Channel Networks / C. Egger, P. Moreno-Sanchez, M. Matteo / Talk: Scaling Bitcoin, Israel, Tel Aviv (invited); 2019-09-11 - 2019-09-12; in: "Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security", New York (2019), ISBN: 978-1-4503-6747-9; 801 - 815
• Verifying Relational Properties using Trace Logic / G. Barthe, R. Eilers, P. Georgiou, B. Gleiss, L. Kovacs, M. Maffei / Talk: International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design (FMCAD) 2019, San Jose, US; 2019-10-22 - 2019-10-25; in: "Proceedings of Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design (FMCAD)", B. Clark, J. Yang (ed.); IEEE, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8891869/proceeding (2019), ISBN: 978-0-9835678-9-9; 170 - 178

2018

• ClearChart: Ensuring integrity of consumer ratings in online marketplaces / P. Moreno-Sanchez, U. Mahmood, A. Kate / Computers & Security, Computers & Security 78 (2018), Volume 78; 90 - 102
• Transcompiling Firewalls / C. Bodei, P. Degano, R. Focardi, L. Galletta, M. Tempesta / in: "Principles of Security and Trust: 7th International Conference, POST 2018 Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018 Thessaloniki, Greece, April 14-20, 2018, Proceedings", LNCS 10804; issued by: ETAPS; Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-319-89721-9, 303 - 324
• MineSweeper: An In-depth Look into Drive-by Cryptocurrency Mining and Its Defense / R. Konoth, E. Vineti, V. Moonsamy, M. Lindorfer, C. Krügel, H. Bos, G. Vigna / in: "Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)", ACM (ed.); ACM, 2018, ISBN: 978-1-4503-5693-0, 1714 - 1730
• Panoptispy: Characterizing Audio and Video Exfiltration from Android Applications / E. Pan, J. Ren, M. Lindorfer, C. Wilson, D. Choffnes / in: "Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)", DeGruyter, 4, 2018, 33 - 50
• GuardION: Practical Mitigation of DMA-based Rowhammer Attacks on ARM / V. van der Veen, M. Lindorfer, Y. Fratantonio, H. Padmanabha Pillai, G. Vigna, C. Krügel, H. Bos, K. Razavi / in: "Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA)", Springer, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-319-93410-5, 92 - 113
• Bug Fixes, Improvements, ... and Privacy Leaks - A Longitudinal Study of PII Leaks Across Android App Versions / J. Ren, M. Lindorfer, D. Dubois, A. Rao, D. Choffnes, N. Vallina-Rodriguez / in: "Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)", Internet Society, 2018
• UniTraX: Protecting Data Privacy with Discoverable Biases / M. Maffei, R. Munz, F. Eigner, P. Francis, D. Garg / in: "Principles of Security and Trust", LNCS 10804; Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Schwitzerland, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-319-89721-9, 278 - 299
• Equivalence Properties by Typing in Cryptographic Branching Protocols / V. Cortier, N. Grimm, J. Lallemand, M. Maffei / in: "Principles of Security and Trust", LNCS 10804; issued by: Springer, Cham; Springer LNCS, Schwitzerland, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-319-89721-9, 160 - 187
• A Semantic Framework for the Security Analysis of Ethereum smart contracts. / I. Grishchenko, C. Schneidewind, M. Maffei / in: "Principles of Security and Trust", LNCS 10804; issued by: Springer Link; Springer Open, Schwitzerland, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-319-89721-9, 243 - 269
• WPSE: Fortifying Web Protocols via Browser-Side Security Monitoring / S. Calzavara, M. Maffei, C. Schneidewind, M. Tempesta, M. Squarcina / in: "Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium", 27th; issued by: USENIX Association Berkley, CA, USA; USENIX, 2018, ISBN: 978-1-931971-46-1, 1493 - 1510

2017

• Principles of Security and Trust / M. Matteo, M. Ryan, P. Ah-Fat, M. Alabbad, M. Alvim, Z. Aslanyan, N. Atzei, K. Babel, M. Bartoletti, L. Bauer, A. Blot, S. Bursuc, P. Cañones, G. Casini, V. Cheval, T. Cimoli, M. Cramer, J. Dreier, C. Duménil, D. Hedin, M. Hicks, M. Huth, L. Jia, C. Johansen, O. Jones, R. Khedri, B. Köpf, S. Kremer, P. Laud, P. Mardziel, F. Nielson, M. Pettai, F. Piessens, W. Rafnsson, J. Reineke, A. Sabelfeld, R. Sasse, A. Sjösten, T. Terauchi, S. Xu, M. Yamamoto / Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2017, ISBN: 978-3-662-54454-9; 1 pages
• Surviving the Web: A Journey into Web Session Security / S. Calzavara, M. Squarcina, M. Tempesta, R. Focardi / Acm Computing Surveys, Volume 50 Issue 1 (2017), 13; 1 - 34
• Maliciously Secure Multi-Client ORAM / M. Matteo, G. Malavolta, M. Reinert, D. Schröder / in: "Applied Cryptography and Network Security", LNCS 10355; D. Gollmann, A. Miyaji, H. Kikuchi (ed.); © Springer International Publishing AG 2017, Cham, 2017, ISBN: 978-3-319-61203-4, 645 - 664
• Obfuscation-Resilient Privacy Leak Detection for Mobile Apps Through Differential Analysis / A. Continella, Y. Fratantonio, M. Lindorfer, A. Puccetti, A. Zand, C. Krügel, G. Vigna / in: "Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)", Internet Society, 2017
• SilentWhispers: Enforcing Security and Privacy in Decentralized Credit Networks / M. Matteo, P. Moreno-Sanchez, A. Kate, G. Malavolta / in: "2017 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium", Internet Society, Reston, Virginia, USA, 2017, ISBN: 1-891562-46-0, 1 - 15
• Concurrency and Privacy with Payment-Channel Networks / M. Matteo, A. Kate, G. Malavolta, P. Moreno-Sanchez, S. Ravi / in: "CCS '17 Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security", ACM Digital Library, New York, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-4503-4946-8, 455 - 471
• A Sound Flow-Sensitive Heap Abstraction for the Static Analysis of Android Applications / M. Matteo, S. Calzavara, I. Grishchenko, A. Koutsos / Talk: IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Santa Barbara, USA; 2017-08-21 - 2017-08-25; in: "IEEE 30th Computer Security Foundations Symposium CSF 2017", IEEE Xplore Digital Library, (2017), ISBN: 978-1-5386-3217-8; Paper ID 3, 15 pages
• A Type System for Privacy Properties / M. Matteo, J. Lallemand, V. Cortier, N. Grimm / Talk: ACM CCS 2017 Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Dallas, USA; 2017-10-30 - 2017-11-03; in: "CCS '17 Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security", ACM Digital Library, New York (2017), ISBN: 978-1-4503-4946-8; 409 - 423

2016

• Drammer: Deterministic Rowhammer Attacks on Mobile Platforms / V. van der Veen, Y. Fratantonio, M. Lindorfer, D. Gruss, C. Maurice, G. Vigna, H. Bos, K. Razavi, C. Giuffrida / in: "ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)", ACM, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-4503-4139-4, 1675 - 1689
• ReCon: Revealing and Controlling PII Leaks in Mobile Network Traffic / J. Ren, A. Rao, M. Lindorfer, A. Legout, D. Choffnes / in: "International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys)", ACM, 2016, 361 - 374
• CuriousDroid: Automated User Interface Interaction for Android Application Analysis Sandboxes / P. Carter, C. Mulliner, M. Lindorfer, W. Robertson, E. Kirda / in: "International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC)", Springer, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-662-54969-8, 231 - 249

2015

• Marvin: Efficient and Comprehensive Mobile App Classification Through Static and Dynamic Analysis / M. Lindorfer, M. Neugschwandtner, Ch. Platzer / in: "Proceedings of the IEEE 39th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)", IEEE, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-4673-6564-2, 422 - 433

2014

• Skin Sheriff: A Machine Learning Solution for Detecting Explicit Images / Ch. Platzer, M. Stütz, M. Lindorfer / in: "Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Security and Forensics in Communication Systems (ASIACCS-SFCS)", IEEE, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-4503-2802-9, 45 - 56
• AndRadar: Fast Discovery of Android Applications in Alternative Markets / M. Lindorfer, V. Volanis, A. Sisto, M. Neugschwandtner, E. Athanasopoulos, F. Maggi, Ch. Platzer, S. Zanero, S. Ioannidis / in: "Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA)", Springer, LNCS 8550, 2014, ISBN: 978-3-319-08508-1, 51 - 71
• Andrubis - 1,000,000 Apps Later: A View on Current Android Malware Behaviors / M. Lindorfer, M. Neugschwandtner, L. Weichselbaum, Y. Fratantonio, V. van der Veen, Ch. Platzer / in: "Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Building Analysis Datasets and Gathering Experience Returns for Security (BADGERS)", IEEE, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-4799-8308-7, 3 - 17

2013

• A View to a Kill: WebView Exploitation / M. Neugschwandtner, M. Lindorfer, Ch. Platzer / in: "USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET)", USENIX, 2013
• Take a Bite - Finding the Worm in the Apple / M. Lindorfer, B. Miller, M. Neugschwandtner, Ch. Platzer / in: "International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS)", IEEE, 2013
• POSTER: Cross-Platform Malware: Write Once, Infect Everywhere / M. Lindorfer, M. Neumayr, J. Caballero, Ch. Platzer / Poster: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Berlin; 2013-11-04 - 2013-11-08; in: "ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)", (2013)

2012

• Lines of Malicious Code: Insights Into the Malicious Software Industry / M. Lindorfer, A. Di Federico, F. Maggi, P. Milani Comparetti, S. Zanero / in: "Proceedings of the 28th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference", ACM, New York, 2012, ISBN: 978-1-4503-1312-4, 349 - 358

2011

• Detecting Environment-Sensitive Malware / M. Lindorfer, C. Kolbitsch, P. Milani Comparetti / in: "Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (2011)", Springer, 2011, ISBN: 978-3-642-23643-3

• Theoretical and Prctical Smart Contracs Realization of an Investment Fund / Master Thesis by J. Schneider / Supervisor: M. Matteo, C. Schneidewind; Institut of LOgic and Computation, Security and Privacy, 2018; final examination: 2018-08-31
• Malware Through the Looking Glass: Malware Analysis in an Evolving Threat Landscape / PhD Thesis by M. Lindorfer / Supervisor, Reviewer: E. Weippl, T. Holz, E. Kirda; Institut für Rechnergestützte Automation, 2016; oral examination: 2016-02-02
• Current State of Browser Extension Security and Extension-based Malware / Master Thesis by M. Neumayr / Supervisor: W. Kastner, M. Lindorfer; Rechnergestützte Automation, 2015; final examination: 2015-04-14
• Detecting Environment-Sensitive Malware / Master Thesis by M. Lindorfer / Supervisor: E. Kirda, P. Milani Comparetti, C. Kolbitsch; Institut für Rechnergestützte Automation, 2011

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