Sven Übelacker
Contact
- Room
E4.012
- GnuPG
KeyID 0x5201D3589FF34ACF, 2013-03-13
- Telephone
+49-40-42878-4308
Projects
- 2016-2017 Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2013-2016 TREsPASS (Technology-supported Risk Estimation by Predictive Assessment of Socio-technical Security) project, funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme under Grant Agreement No. 318003
Peer-Reviewed Publications
- 2015 Zinaida Benenson, Gabriele Lenzini, Daniela Oliveira, Simon Parkin, and Sven Uebelacker: "Maybe Poor Johnny Really Cannot Encrypt – The Case for a Complexity Theory for Usable Security", NSPW, University of Twente, The Netherlands
[paper] - 2014 Sven Uebelacker, Susanne Quiel: "The Social Engineering Personality Framework", STAST workshop, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
[paper, slides, bibtex, backup] - 2013 Sven Uebelacker: "Security-Aware Organisational Cultures as a Starting Point for Mitigating Socio-Technical Risks", GI INFORMATIK 2013, RiskKom workshop, University of Koblenz, Germany
[paper, slides, bibtex, backup] - or see listings at dblp.uni-trier.de, ORCiD or base-search.net
Talks
- 2015-12-17 Sven Uebelacker: "Verwundbar durch Social Engineering -- Grenzen der menschlichen 'Firewall'", CAST-Workshop "Forensik und Internetkriminalität", CAST e.V., Fraunhofer SIT, Darmstadt
- 2015-12-10 Sven Uebelacker: "In Search of Cognitive Upper Bounds for Usable Security Mechanisms", Oberseminar SECUSO, TU Darmstadt
- 2015-02-24 Sven Uebelacker: "Social Engineering Attacks", lightning talk, 22. DFN-Konferenz "Sicherheit in vernetzten Systemen", Hamburg
[slides, backup] - 2015-01-12 Sven Uebelacker: "The Social Engineering Personality Framework", Usability Colloquium, Quality and Usability Lab, TU Berlin
[slides, backup] - 2014-10-23 Sven Uebelacker: "Social Engineering", lecture "Usability / User Experience Design", Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany
[slides] - 2014-09-24 Sven Uebelacker: "Uncertainty -- Information Testing and Degradation", TREsPASS WP2/9 workshop, Lisbon
- 2014-03-25 Sven Uebelacker: "Victim Profiling -- The Social Engineering Personality Framework", SRM seminar, University of Luxembourg
[slides]
Activities
- 32. Chaos Communication Congress, session "Social Engineering Poetry Slam" (2015), initiator/organiser
- TREsPASS Deliverable D1.3.2 "Extensibility of Socio-Technical Security Models" (2015, pdf), editor
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS) journal, volume ? (201?), reviewer
- WEBIST 2015 Special Session "Socio-Technical Dynamics in Information Systems" (STDIS), program committee
- CPDP 2015 panel "Cybercrime Social Engineering Analysis Challenge", Brussels [video], panel moderator
- International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), Volume 5 (2013), reviewer
Teaching
- summer semester 2016: seminar "Human Factors in Information Security" (TUHH StudIP)
- winter semester 2015/2016: seminar "Human Factors in Information Security" (TUHH StudIP)
- summer semester 2014: IT Security Risk Management (TUHH StudIP)
- summer semester 2013: IT Security Risk Management (TUHH StudIP)
Supervised Theses
- Adrian Metzner: "End User Reporting of Suspicious E-mails Using X-ARF" (master thesis)
- Ngoc-Minh Michal Pham: "Court Rulings as Evidence for Social Engineering Research" (bachelor thesis)
- Susanne Quiel: "Social Engineering in the Context of Cialdini's Psychology of Persuasion and Personality Traits" (bachelor thesis)