Matthew Smith How Can We Prevent Network Security Problems in Smartphone Apps?
Matthew Smith is a Professor for Computer Science at the Rheinische-Friedrichs-University Bonn (Germany). His research interests lie at the intersection of technical IT security and privacy and behavioral research. He focuses on “Usability Security” considering the human factor. For his PhD thesis he was awarded the thesis award by the Association for the Facilitation of Research Transfer (GFFT e.V.) Germany. He is a member of the Fraunhofer FKIE in Bonn and the Research Center L3S at the University of Hanover.
Area of Research
Behavioural Security, Usable Security and Privacy, Usable Security for Developers and Administrators
since 2013
Professor for Usable Security and Privacy
University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) (more details)
2012-2013
Professor for Distributed Computing and Security
University of Hanover (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
2009-2012
Professor for Distributed Computing and Security
University of Hanover (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
2008-2009
Freelance Consultancy
Postbank Financial Services GmbH, Frankfurt/Main
2008-2009
Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Distributed Systems Group
Philipps-Universität Marburg
2003-2008
Graduate Research Assistant in the Distributed Systems Group
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Group Led by Prof. Dr. Bernd Freisleben
2002-2003
Part-Time Freelance Work for the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (IMK)
BMBF-Projects "Awake" and "Netzspannung"
2001-2002
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
University of Siegen (Universität Siegen)
Institut of "Messtechnik" in the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
1999-2001
Research Assistant in the Parallel Systems Group
University of Siegen (Universität Siegen)
Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2008
PhD in Computer Science
University of Marburg
Thesis "Security for Service-Oriented On-Demand Grid Computing"
2003
Diploma in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Siegen (Universität Siegen)
Thesis "Peer-to-Peer Based Middleware for Cooperative Mobile Sensor Platforms"
- ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (2012, 2013)
- Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on the Web (2015)
- IEEE Security and Privacy (2015)
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2012)
- Methods of Information in Medicine (2012)
- ERC Starting Grant for "USECFrontiers: Frontiers of Usable Security" (2015)
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University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
Bonn is one of the large universities in Germany, with around 36,000 students, 550 professors, 6,500 other staff staff. It offers a wide disciplinary spectrum comprising some 200 different degree programmes, from Agricultural Science to Tibetan Studies. This diversity is what characterizes Bonn as a full-range university with a strong international orientation. In many international university rankings Bonn is placed among the 100 best universities in the world.Its academic and research profile features internationally renowned specializations in the fields of Mathematics, Physics/Astronomy, Economics, Chemistry, Pharma Research, Biosciences, Genetic Medicine, Neurosciences and Philosophy/Ethics. Other disciplines, such as Geography and Law, are of outstanding importance within the German research scene.
The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn is rooted in a long tradition going back almost 200 years. It was founded in 1818 by Friedrich-Wilhelm III, the Prussian king whose name it bears. Imbued with the spirit of Wilhelm von Humboldt, the university quickly joined the circle of Germany's most distinguished universities and became a major pole of attraction for leading scholars as well as students.The list of famous professors ranges from the astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799-1875), through the chemist August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896) and political economist Josef Schumpeter (1883–1950) to the philologist Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956) and the theologists Karl Barth (1886–1968) and Joseph Ratzinger (born 1927), now Pope Benedict XVI. Bonn's best-known students include Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Konrad Adenauer.
The university is proud of a long list of award-winning scientists and scholars, with about twenty Leibniz Prize winners and around thirty ERC grantees. In the last three decades two professors have received the Nobel Prize: Wolfgang Paul (for Physics, 1989) and Reinhard Selten (for Economics, 1994). (Source: University of Bonn)
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Many android apps that try to use SSL to secure network communication fail in doing so and are insecure. By detecting such security flaws and interviewing the developers, the study presented in this video shows the necessity of rethinking how developers interact with security code. As shown, developers are not, as often implied, infallible. This means that prevention of security problems should be carried out by increasing the usability of programming software to match the requirements of app developers, follows MATTHEW SMITH.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10054
Rethinking SSL Development in an Appified World
- Sascha Fahl, Marian Harbach, Henning Perl, Markus Koetter and Matthew Smith
- Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSAC conference on Computer & communications security
- Published in 2013
Why Eve and Mallory Love Android: An Analysis of Android SSL (in) Security
- Sascha Fahl, Marian Harbach, Thomas Muders, Lars Baumgärtner, Bernd Freisleben and Matthew Smith
- Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Computer and communications security
- Published in 2012
