I am a third-year Ph.D student at the chair for Security and Privacy of Ubiquitous Systems at Ruhr University Bochum under the supervision of Veelasha Moonsamy. My research focuses on methods for analyzing and securing firmware running on Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Specifically, I am interested in enhancing state-of-the-art static analysis methods and understanding their limitations. I am also interested in the practical side of things, where I examine real-world IoT devices and dissect them to understand their inner workings and security mechanisms. Finally, I explore the intersection of software and hardware to understand, for instance, logic vulnerabilities that manifest in software but can only be triggered through hardware.
Publications
Kintsugi: Secure Hotpatching for Code-Shadowing Real-Time Embedded Systems
Philipp Mackensen, Christian Niesler, Roberto Blanco, Lucas Davi, Veelasha Moonsamy
Accepted at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium 2025Spatial-Domain Wireless Jamming with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Philipp Mackensen, Paul Staat, Stefan Roth, Aydin Sezgin, Christof Paar, Veelasha Moonsamy
Accepted at the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025
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Media: [RUB] [Interesting Engineering] [hackster.io]Vulnerability, Where Art Thou? An Investigation of Vulnerability Management in Android Smartphone Chipsets
Daniel Klischies, Philipp Mackensen, Veelasha Moonsamy
Accepted at the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025
