Thorsten Holz
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where they keep going back
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who talks about the same things
- Laurent Beslay3 talks
- Marit Hansen8 talks
- Ivan Szekely7 talks
- Angela Sasse2 talks
- John Borking2 talks
- Paul De Hert12 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Confusing Value with Enumeration: Studying the Use of CVEs in Academia | USENIX Security '25 | 2025-08-13 |
Analysis of 1,803 CVEs claimed in 304 papers finds 34% unconfirmed or disputed, 274 reserved, 288 with no maintainer response, and 52 where maintainers say… | ||
| Doors of Durin: The Veiled Gate to Siemens S7 Silicon | Black Hat Europe 2019 | 2019-12-02 |
Research uncovers a UART MFGT1 handshake in the S7-1200 bootloader that opens a diagnostic console; bootloader uses CRC32 (not cryptographic) for firmware… | ||
| kAFL: Hardware-Assisted Feedback Fuzzing for OS Kernels | 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '17) | 2017-08-16 |
Combines Intel Processor Trace with a KVM-aware hypervisor and on‑the‑fly PT decoding in QEMU to drive AFL-style coverage feedback for kernel targets on Linux… | ||
| Syntia: Synthesizing the Semantics of Obfuscated Code | 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '17) | 2017-08-16 |
Proposes Syntia, a program-synthesis deobfuscator that uses Monte Carlo Tree Search to learn semantics from short execution trace windows rather than relying… | ||
| Reverse Engineering x86 Processor Microcode | 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '17) | 2017-08-16 |
The paper reverse-engineers microcode semantics and the update mechanism on AMD K8 and K10 x86 microarchitectures, analyzing how vendor-supplied microcode… | ||
| Academic sessions (3) | CPDP 2015 | 2015-01-21 |
Argues legal categories break down in practice and proposes a taxonomy that treats payload vs headers as the decisive technical boundary, warning that packet… | ||
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