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Squirrel Hill

Morgen sind es zwei Wochen seit dem ich in Pittsburgh bin. Anfangs hat mich Ben – ein supernetter Couchsurfer gehosted und mittlerweile bin ich in Squirrel Hill angekommen. Ich teile mir ein kleines Haus mit zwei anderen Studenten in der Kamin Street. Die Stadt gefällt mir ganz gut, vorallem da Pittsburgh erstaunlich vielfältig ist. Squirrel […]

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Countdown to Pittsburgh …

This Saturday I will be leaving to Pittsburgh for my research intern at CMU. Straight afterwards we will go to Greece for some holidays. Finally at the end of the summer I will be going to the IFIP SEC 10 conference before I return back home in October. Happy summer everyone and see you soon! […]

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fitm research security

Technical Report: Friend-in-the-Middle (FITM) Attacks

Abstract. In the ongoing arms race between spammers and the multi-million dollar anti-spam industry, the number of unsolicited e-mail messages (better known as “spam”) and phishing has increased heavily in the last decade. In this paper, we show that our novel friend-in-the-middle attack on social networking sites (SNSs) can be used to harvest social data […]